A Measurement of the W Boson Mass
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994--1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to final states. We extract the W mass, M(W), by fitting the transverse mass and transverse electron momentum spectra from a sample of 28,323 W to decay candidates. We use a sample of 3,563 dielectron events, mostly due to Z to ee decays, to constrain our model of the detector response. From the transverse mass fit we measure M(W) = GeV. Combining this with our previously published result from data taken in 1992--1993, we obtain M(W) GeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9712029,
title = {A Measurement of the W Boson Mass},
author = {B. Abbott and M. Abolins and B. S. Acharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9712029},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
49 pages, 77 figures