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This paper describes the measurement of the W boson mass, M_W, and decay width, Gamma_W, from the direct reconstruction of the invariant mass of its decay products in W pair events collected at a mean centre-of-mass energy of sqrt{s} =…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL Collaboration , K. Ackerstaff et al

Previous studies of the QED systematic uncertainties on the LEP measurement of the W-boson mass have used idealized event selections and fitting procedures. In this paper, the Monte Carlo tandem of KoralW and YFSWW is used to investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Thomson

The mass and width of the W boson are measured using e+e- -> W+W- events from the data sample collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 170 GeV and 209 GeV. The mass (mw) and width (gw) are determined using…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL Collaboration , G. Abbiendi

Precise measurements of the mass and width of the W boson are carried out in e+e- collisions at LEP, by kinematic reconstruction of the invariant mass distributions of WW->qqlv and WW->qqqq candidate events. The most recent combination of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Nigel K. Watson

The FCC-ee offers powerful opportunities for direct or indirect evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model, via a combination of high precision measurements and searches for forbidden and rare processes and feebly coupled particles. A…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-23 Juan Alcaraz Maestre , Alain Blondel , Mogens Dam , Patrick Janot

The mass and the total decay width of the W boson are measured with the L3 detector at the LEP e+e- collider using W-boson pairs produced in 0.7/fb of data collected at centre-of-mass energies between 161 and 209GeV. Combining semi-leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 L3 Collaboration

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

Circular electron positron colliders, such as the CEPC and FCC-ee, have been proposed to measure Higgs boson properties precisely, test the Standard Model, search for physics beyond the Standard Model, and so on. One of the important goals…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-13 P. X. Shen , P. Azzurri , C. X. Yu , M. Boonekamp , C. M. Kuo , P. Z. Lai , B. Li , G. Li , H. N. Li , Z. J. Liang , B. Liu , J. M. Qian , L. S. Shi

The prospects for electroweak precision measurements at the Future Circular Collider with electron-positron beams (FCC-ee) are discussed. The Z mass and width, as well as the value of the electroweak mixing angle, can be measured with very…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-10 Roberto Tenchini

We report on measurements of the mass and total decay width of the W boson with the L3 detector at LEP. W-pair events produced in $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ interactions between 161 GeV and 183 GeV centre-of-mass energy are selected in a data sample…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 L3 Collaboration

A novel method of determining the mass of the W boson in the W+W- -> lnu lnu channel is presented and applied to 667pb^-1 of data recorded at the center-of- mass energies in the range 183-207 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP. The Measured…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL collaboration , G. Abbiendi

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 mass of the W boson is determined from the direct reconstruction of its decays into purely hadronic and semi-leptonic events in e+e- collisions at LEP. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 683 inverse picobarns…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The ALEPH Collaboration

A measurement of the W mass and width has been performed by the DELPHI collaboration using the data collected during 1998. The data sample has an integrated luminosity of 155 pb^{-1} and an average centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 The DELPHI Collaboration , P. Abreu

The mass of the W boson has been measured by the LEP collaborations from the data recorded during the LEP2 programme at e+ e- centre of mass energies from 161 to 209 GeV, giving the result : mw = 80.450 +/- 0.039 GeV/c^2. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Parkes

A measurement of the W boson mass and width has been performed by the DELPHI collaboration using the data collected during the full LEP2 programme (1996-2000). The data sample has an integrated luminosity of 660 pb^-1 and was collected over…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-02 The DELPHI Collaboration , J. Abdallah

The mass and width of the W boson are determined in e+e- collisions at LEP using 183 pb^-1 of data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy roots=189 GeV with the OPAL detector. The invariant mass distributions from 970 WW->qqqq and 1118…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL collaboration , G. Abbiendi

After the first observations of W bosons in leptonic interactions, about 4000 WW candidate events per experiment have been collected at LEP2. This data allows the measurement of the WW production cross section at different centre-of-mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 M. Campanelli

We review the precision measurement of the mass of the W-boson at LEP. We discuss the techniques used by the four LEP experiments to determine the mass of the W-boson as well as the major sources of systematic uncertainty. The measurement…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Raimund Ströhmer

In 1997 each LEP experiment collected approximately $55 {pb}^{-1}$ of data at a center-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. These data yield a sample of candidate $e^+e^- \to W^+W^-$ events from which the mass of the W boson, M_W, is measured. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Glenzinski
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