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Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the CDF II detector

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-13 v1

Abstract

We have measured the W-boson mass MW using data corresponding to 2.2/fb of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Samples consisting of 470126 W->enu candidates and 624708 W->munu candidates yield the measurement MW = 80387 +- 12 (stat) +- 15 (syst) = 80387 +- 19 MeV. This is the most precise measurement of the W-boson mass to date and significantly exceeds the precision of all previous measurements combined.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0275,
  title  = {Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the CDF II detector},
  author = {T. Aaltonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0275},
  year   = {2019}
}