Scientific article
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Measurement of the W boson mass

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
CollaboratorsProduit, Nicolasorcid
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 75, no. 1, p. 11-16
Publication date1995
First online date1995-07-03
Abstract

We present a measurement of the mass of the $W$ boson using data collected with the CDF detector during the 1992-93 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron. A fit to the transverse mass spectrum of a sample of 3268 {\mbox{$W \rightarrow \mu\nu$}} events recorded in an integrated luminosity of 19.7 pb$^{-1}$ gives a mass $M_{W}^{\mu}=80.310\pm0.205\mbox{~(stat.)}\pm0.130\mbox{~(syst.)} \ \mbox{GeV/c}^{2}$. A fit to the transverse mass spectrum of a sample of 5718 {\mbox{$W \rightarrow e\nu$}} events recorded in 18.2 pb$^{-1}$ gives a mass $M_{W}^{e}=80.490\pm0.145\mbox{~(stat.)}\pm0.175\mbox{~(syst.)} \ \mbox{GeV/c}^{2}$. Combining the electron and muon results, accounting for correlated uncertainties, yields a mass $M_{W}=80.410\pm0.180 \ \mbox{GeV/c}^{2}$.

Keywords
  • Anti-p p: colliding beams
  • Colliding beams: anti-p p
  • Anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • W: hadroproduction
  • Hadroproduction: W
  • W: leptonic decay
  • Leptonic decay: W
  • W: mass
  • Mass: W
  • Mass spectrum: transverse
  • Transverse: mass spectrum
  • CDF
  • Experimental results
  • Batavia TEVATRON Coll
  • Anti-p p --> W anything
  • W --> muon neutrino
  • W --> electron neutrino
  • 1800 GeV-cms
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
CDF Collaboration. Measurement of the W boson mass. In: Physical review letters, 1995, vol. 75, n° 1, p. 11–16. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.75.11
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.11
Journal ISSN0031-9007
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