A Measurement of the W Boson Mass
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We report a measurement of the W boson mass based on an integrated luminosity of 82 pb from \ppbar collisions at TeV recorded in 1994--1995 by the \Dzero detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We identify W bosons by their decays to and extract the mass by fitting the transverse mass spectrum from 28,323 W boson candidates. A sample of 3,563 dielectron events, mostly due to Z to ee decays, constrains models of W boson production and the detector. We measure ~GeV. By combining this measurement with our result from the 1992--1993 data set, we obtain GeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9712028,
title = {A Measurement of the W Boson Mass},
author = {B. Abbott and M. Abolins and B. S. Acharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9712028},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
11 pages, 5 figures