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Top quark pair production in association with a W boson is a rare standard model process that has proven to be an intriguing puzzle for theorists and experimentalists alike. Recent measurements, performed at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, by both the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-20 David Marckx

Previous studies of the physics potential of LEP2 indicated that with the design luminosity of 500 inverse picobarn one may get a direct measurement of the mass of the W-boson with a precision in the range 30 - 50 MeV. This report presents…

The W-boson mass measurement recently reported by the CDF II experiment exhibits a significant deviation from both the Standard Model prediction and previous measurements. There is also a long-standing deviation between the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-22 Shengdu Chai , Jiayin Gu , Lian-Tao Wang

Measurements of inclusive $W$ and $Z$ boson production cross-sections in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using final states containing muons are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 37 pb$^{-1}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-13 LHCb collaboration , R. Aaij , C. Abellan Beteta , A. Adametz , B. Adeva , M. Adinolfi , C. Adrover , A. Affolder , Z. Ajaltouni , J. Albrecht , F. Alessio , M. Alexander , S. Ali , G. Alkhazov , P. Alvarez Cartelle , A. A. Alves , S. Amato , Y. Amhis , J. Anderson , R. B. Appleby , O. Aquines Gutierrez , F. Archilli , A. Artamonov , M. Artuso , E. Aslanides , G. Auriemma , S. Bachmann , J. J. Back , V. Balagura , W. Baldini , R. J. Barlow , C. Barschel , S. Barsuk , W. Barter , A. Bates , C. Bauer , Th. Bauer , A. Bay , J. Beddow , I. Bediaga , S. Belogurov , K. Belous , I. Belyaev , E. Ben-Haim , M. Benayoun , G. Bencivenni , S. Benson , J. Benton , R. Bernet , M. -O. Bettler , M. van Beuzekom , A. Bien , S. Bifani , T. Bird , A. Bizzeti , P. M. Bjørnstad , T. Blake , F. Blanc , C. Blanks , J. Blouw , S. Blusk , A. Bobrov , V. Bocci , A. Bondar , N. Bondar , W. Bonivento , S. Borghi , A. Borgia , T. J. V. Bowcock , C. Bozzi , T. Brambach , J. van den Brand , J. Bressieux , D. Brett , M. Britsch , T. Britton , N. H. Brook , H. Brown , A. Büchler-Germann , I. Burducea , A. Bursche , J. Buytaert , S. Cadeddu , O. Callot , M. Calvi , M. Calvo Gomez , A. Camboni , P. Campana , A. Carbone , G. Carboni , R. Cardinale , A. Cardini , L. Carson , K. Carvalho Akiba , G. Casse , M. Cattaneo , Ch. Cauet , M. Charles , Ph. Charpentier , N. Chiapolini , M. Chrzaszcz , K. Ciba , X. Cid Vidal , G. Ciezarek , P. E. L. Clarke , M. Clemencic , H. V. Cliff , J. Closier , C. Coca , V. Coco , J. Cogan , E. Cogneras , P. Collins , A. Comerma-Montells , A. Contu , A. Cook , M. Coombes , G. Corti , B. Couturier , G. A. Cowan , R. Currie , C. D'Ambrosio , P. David , P. N. Y. David , I. De Bonis , K. De Bruyn , S. De Capua , M. De Cian , J. M. De Miranda , L. De Paula , P. De Simone , D. Decamp , M. Deckenhoff , H. Degaudenzi , L. Del Buono , C. Deplano , D. Derkach , O. Deschamps , F. Dettori , J. Dickens , H. Dijkstra , P. 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The study of WW Higgs boson decays is one of the key elements of the LHC physics program, as these decays are dominant close to the WW resonance. Recent results obtained using the full simulation of the detector are presented in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Delaere

Uncertainties on parton distribution functions (PDFs) compromise discovery at the LHC for any new physics which can be described as a contact-interaction. PDF uncertainties also limit our ability to use W and Z cross-sections as an accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-12 A M Cooper-Sarkar

A measurement of the Higgs boson mass is presented based on the combined data samples of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC in the $H \rightarrow \gamma\gamma$ and $H \rightarrow ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ decay channels. The results…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-20 ATLAS , CMS Collaborations

Processes producing a charged final state at the LHC have a positive integral charge asymmetry. We propose a novel method for an indirect measurement of the mass of these final states based upon the process integral charge asymmetry. First,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-10 Guy Steve Muanza , Thomas Serre

The large dataset of about 3000 fb$^{-1}$ that will be collected by both the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will be used to measure Higgs boson properties in detail. Studies based on current analyses have been…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-18 Michaela Mlynarikova

From 1996 up to 2000 the LEP collider at CERN has operated at center of mass energies above the production threshold for W boson pairs of approximately 160 GeV. The obtained data are used to extract a preliminary W mass value of (80.450 +-…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Rabbertz

We address the potential of measurements with boosted single-top final states at the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and possible future hadron colliders: the high-energy LHC (HE-LHC), and the future circular collider (FCC). As new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , M. L. Mangano

Measurements of electroweak-bosons in heavy-ion collisions with ALICE are reported. They are measured at large rapidities, via their (di)muonic decay: Z $\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-$ and W$^\pm \rightarrow \mu^\pm \nu$. The Z production and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-10-11 Guillaume Taillepied

We provide a comprehensive comparison of W/Z vector boson production data in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions at the LHC with predictions obtained using the nCTEQ15 PDFs. We identify the measurements which have the largest potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Kusina , F. Lyonnet , D. B. Clark , E. Godat , T. Jezo , K. Kovarik , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

The high-energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider provide the ideal conditions to study the rare processes predicted by the Standard Model (SM) such as the production of multiple electroweak bosons. These processes…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-21 Diego Baron

The most reliable prediction for the Higgs-boson mass, M_H, is obtained in a fit to the leptonic Z-resonance observables Gamma_l and swbar^2 combined with the W-boson mass, M_W, and top-quark mass, m_t, measurements. The corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Dittmaier , D. Schildknecht

The search for exclusive hadronic vector boson decays is an ongoing part of the LHC programme where, to date, no such decays have been observed. In addition to the intrinsic interest in the branching ratios, there is potential for a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-28 W. J. Murray , E. Jones

Measurements of the production of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair are reported. The W$^+$W$^-$ candidates are selected in events with an oppositely charged lepton pair, large missing transverse momentum, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-05 CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay performed at the Large Hadron Collider by the ATLAS and CMS experiments are reviewed. These measurements are based on proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$=~13~TeV, corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-27 Guillaume Unal

The production of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons in single diffractive processes at the LHC is investigated taking into account the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb acceptances and considering different assumptions for the flavour content of the Pomeron. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-27 E. A. F. Basso , V. P. Goncalves , D. E. Martins , M. S. Rangel

These proceedings summarize the latest progress by the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC in measuring diboson production and related searches for physics beyond Standard Model via anomalous gauge couplings with the latest Effective Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-27 Shu Li