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Recent analyses of single $W$ and $Z$ boson production properties and asymmetries from the CDF and D\O\ experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron are reported. For $W$ boson production, measurements of the production and lepton charge…
Knowledge of the beam energy at LEP2 is of primary importance to set the absolute energy scale for the measurement of the W-boson mass. The beam energy above 80 GeV is derived from continuous measurements of the magnetic bending field by 16…
I present measurements of W and Z boson properties by the CDF and D0 collaborations. This includes measurements that test the production mechanism of the bosons and precision measurements of electroweak parameters. In the former category I…
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…
The total $W$-boson decay width $\Gamma_W$ is an important observable which allows testing of the standard model. The current world average value is based on direct measurements of final state kinematic properties of $W$-boson decays, and…
In 1998, the four experiments of LEP, i.e. ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, collected data of about 175 /pb per experiment at the center-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. Using these data, the mass of W boson was directly measured by reconstructing the…
We present the current status of the W-boson mass averaging project, an ongoing effort aimed at combining Tevatron and LHC measurements. Methods are presented to accurately evaluate the effect of PDFs and other modelling variations on…
The latest results from the CDF and D0 collaborations on the top-quark pair-production cross section and limits on electroweak production are presented. Included are measurements of properties of the top quark such as charge, lifetime, and…
We present a summary of recent measurements of $W$ and $Z$ properties and $W/Z$ production in association with jets in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV with the CDF and D\O\ detectors. Latest measurements of $Z/\gamma^*$…
We present the most recent W and Z production, asymmetries, and V+jets results from the Tevatron collider at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV, analyzing data collected by CDF and DZero detectors between 2002-2011. The results include the measurements of…
We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994--1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to $e\nu$ final states. We extract the W mass, M(W), by fitting the…
The CDF and \D0 collaborations have used recent data taken at the Tevatron to perform QCD tests with $W$ and $Z$ bosons decaying leptonically. \D0 measures the production cross section times branching ratio for $W$ and $Z$ bosons. This also…
We present the first measurements of sigma(p\bar{p} -> W -> l nu) and sigma(p\bar{p} -> Z -> l l) at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV, along with new measurements of W angular-decay distributions in p\bar{p} collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV.
The precision measurement of the W boson mass allows to perform stringent consistency tests of the Standard Model by means of global electroweak fits. The accurate determination of the W boson mass is one of the legacy results of the…
Measurements of hadronic final state interactions in W-pair events at LEP are presented. In particular, different scenarios of colour reconnection are studied. The data agree with moderate colour reconnection effects. Extreme scenarios are…
We present the Tevatron combination of searches for the Higgs boson and studies of its properties. The searches use up to 10 fb$^{-1}$ of Tevatron collider Run II data. We observe a significant excess of events in the mass range between 115…
I present a precise measurement of W boson mass measurement in electron decay channel using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A binned likelihood fit method is used to extract the mass information from the…
At Run II of the Tevatron it will be possible to measure the W boson mass with a relative precision of about 2 times 10^-4, which will eventually represent the best measured observable beyond the input parameters of the SM. Proper…
With the full Tevatron Run II and early LHC data samples, the opportunity for furthering our understanding of the properties of the top quark has never been more promising. Although the current knowledge of the top quark comes largely from…
Recent developments in the measurement of precision electroweak measurements are summarised, notably new results on the mass of the top quark and mass and width of the W boson. Predictions of the Standard Model are compared to the…