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Measurement of the W boson mass

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-11-06 v2

Abstract

We present a measurement of the W boson mass in W -> ev decays using 1 fb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. With a sample of 499830 W -> ev candidate events, we measure M_W = 80.401 +- 0.043 GeV. This is the most precise measurement from a single experiment.

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@article{arxiv.0908.0766,
  title  = {Measurement of the W boson mass},
  author = {The D0 Collaboration and V. Abazov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0766},
  year   = {2009}
}

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