Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

We present a measurement of the W-boson mass, MW, using data corresponding to 2.2  fb[superscript −1] of integrated luminosity collected in p[bar over p] collisions at √s = 1.96  TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The selected sample of 470 126 W → eν candidates and 624 708 W → μ...

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Main Authors: Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Paus, Christoph M. E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88937
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211
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Summary:We present a measurement of the W-boson mass, MW, using data corresponding to 2.2  fb[superscript −1] of integrated luminosity collected in p[bar over p] collisions at √s = 1.96  TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The selected sample of 470 126 W → eν candidates and 624 708 W → μν candidates yields the measurement M[subscript W] = 80387 ± 12(stat) ± 15(syst) = 80387 ± 19  MeV/c[superscript 2]. This is the most precise single measurement of the W-boson mass to date.

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