Prospects for the measurement of the $b$-quark mass at the ILC

Abstract

This note presents an analysis of the potential of future high-energy electron-positron colliders to measure the $b$-quark mass. We perform a full-simulation study of the measurement of the ratio of the three-jet rates in events with $b\bar{b}(g)$ and $q\bar{q}(g)$ production, $R_3^{bl}$, and assess the dominant uncertainties, including theory and experimental systematic uncertainties. We find that the ILC "Higgs factory" stage, with an integrated luminosity of 2 ab${}^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=$ 250 GeV can measure the $b-$quark $barMS$ mass at a scale of 250 GeV ($m_b(250$GeV$)$) with a precision of 1 GeV. From this result we extrapolate the potential of the GigaZ run running at $\sqrt{s}=m_Z$. We expect $m_b(m_Z)$ can be determined with an 0.12 GeV uncertainty, exceeding the precision of the LEP and SLD measurements by a factor $\sim$3.

Comments: Talk presented at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2021), 15-18 March 2021. C21-03-15.1