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We investigate the uncertainties for current and future measurements of electroweak (EW) parameters at hadron colliders. These include the measurement of the mass of the top quark ($M_T$), the direct measurement of the mass of the W boson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 A. Bodek

I give an overview of the theory status of predictions for single W and Z boson production at hadron colliders. I briefly report on work in progress for improvements necessary to match the anticipated high precision of electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Doreen Wackeroth

Studying the properties of the W boson plays a key role in precision tests of the Standard Model. The key measurements performed over the last decade will be reviewed. W-pair and single-W cross-sections and W decay branching fractions are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Elisabetta Barberio

The electroweak theory has been tested to high precision, with measurements probing its predictions at the loop level. The current generation of particle accelerators will produce enough W and Z bosons through hadron collisions to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Hays

Leptonic decays of W/Z bosons provide the first electroweak precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The results of measurements of inclusive W and Z boson production cross sections in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jeremy Werner

The $W$ boson mass is one of the most important electroweak precision observables for testing the Standard Model or its extensions. The very recent measured $W$ boson mass at CDF shows about $7\sigma$ deviations from the SM prediction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Lei Wu , Yongcheng Wu , Bin Zhu

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is fully equipped to measure leptonic decays of electroweak probes in the high multiplicity environment of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Electroweak boson production is an important benchmark process at hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael Gardner

The transverse momentum spectra of weak vector bosons are measured in the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurement uses a sample of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, collected during a special low-luminosity running that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-27 CMS Collaboration

A set of selected electroweak measurements from the LHC experiments is discussed. Results on forward-backward asymmetry in production of the Drell-Yan events in both dielectron and dimuon decay channels are presented together with results…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-09-01 A. Savin

We report on a precision measurement of the effective weak mixing angle using the forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan ($ee$ and $\mu\mu$) events in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8~\mathrm{TeV}$ at CMS. The data sample corresponds to an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-19 A. Bodek

The present status of precision electroweak data is reviewed. These data include measurements of e+e- -> f+fbar, taken at the Z resonance at LEP, which are used to determine the mass and width of the Z boson. In addition, measurements have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. B. Renton

Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the Z-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks could reveal potential discrepancies between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Krzysztof Mękała , Daniel Jeans , Junping Tian , Jürgen Reuter , Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

This contribution presents an overview of an improved extraction of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle, $\sin^2\theta^\ell_{\mathrm{eff}}$, based on the published CMS measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in Drell-Yan events…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-03 Arie Bodek , Hyon-San Seo , Un-Ki Yang

I summarize an extensive ATLAS and CMS electroweak physics program that involves a variety of single boson, diboson, triboson, and vector boson scattering measurements. The relevance of these studies to our understanding of the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-29 Junjie Zhu

Recent measurements of processes involving the electroweak bosons, Z and W, performed at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider are summarized. The large integrated luminosities collected by both the D0 and CDF Collaborations enable precise…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Nunnemann

We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17 million Z decays accumulated by the ALEPH,…

We review the status of precision measurements of weak neutral current interactions, mediated by the $Z^0$ boson, at $Q^2\ll M_Z^2$. They can be used to extract values for the weak mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_W$, a fundamental parameter of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-29 K. S. Kumar , Sonny Mantry , W. J. Marciano , P. A. Souder

Because of a luminosity of up to five orders of magnitude larger than at LEP, electroweak precision measurements at the FCC-ee -- the Future Circular Collider with electron-positron beams -- would provide improvements by orders of magnitude…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-18 Mogens Dam

We study the impact of the recently computed mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the production of $W$ and $Z$ bosons at the LHC on the value of the $W$ mass extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of charged leptons from $W$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Arnd Behring , Federico Buccioni , Fabrizio Caola , Maximilian Delto , Matthieu Jaquier , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

By running the prospective high-energy e^+e^- collider TESLA in the GigaZ mode on the Z resonance, experiments can be performed on the basis of more than 10^9 Z events. This will allow the measurement of the effective electroweak mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein