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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

This proceeding summarizes recent measurements of electroweak boson and diboson production. The results, based on data from LHC Run 2 at $\sqrt{s}=13\,\mathrm{TeV}$ and Run 3 at $\sqrt{s}=13.6\,\mathrm{TeV}$, probe the Standard Model with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-16 Francesco Giuli

Measurements of electroweak gauge-boson pair-production in sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV pp collisions at the LHC probe self-couplings and interference effects to an accuracy of O(10%) or better. ATLAS measurements of ZZ and WZ production at both…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Christopher Hays

Precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) require not only accurate experiments, but also precise and reliable theoretical predictions. Triple vector boson production provides a unique opportunity to investigate the quartic gauge couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-08 Shen Yong-Bai , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Zhang Yu , Guo Lei

This work studies the associated production of a top-quark pair with a $W$, $Z$, or Higgs boson at the LHC. Predictions for the total cross sections as well as for several differential distributions of the massive particles in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Rikkert Frederix , Davide Pagani , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Ioannis Tsinikos

We perform a comprehensive analysis of electroweak, QED and mixed QCD-electroweak corrections underlying the precise measurement of the W-boson mass M_W at hadron colliders. By applying a template fitting technique, we detail the impact on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Carlo Michel Carloni Calame , Mauro Chiesa , Homero Martinez , Guido Montagna , Oreste Nicrosini , Fulvio Piccinini , Alessandro Vicini

One of the most powerful methods for obtaining a precision measurement of M_W at LEP2 is from direct reconstruction of the invariant mass distribution of W bosons produced in e+e- --> W+W-. We investigate the effects on the W line shape,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. A. Khoze , W. J. Stirling

DO has measured the inclusive production cross section of W and Z bosons in a sample of 13 pb$^{-1}$ of data collected at the Fermilab Tevatron. The cross sections, multiplied by their leptonic branching fractions, for production in pbar-p…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Abbott

The tri-boson production is one of the key processes for the study of quartic gauge couplings. Next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections are mandatory to reduce theoretical uncertainties. In this study, the most up-to-date predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-24 Dao Thi Nhung , Le Duc Ninh , Marcus M. Weber

The pair production of Z bosons is studied using the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP in 1998 in e+e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. All the visible final states are considered and the cross section of this…

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

The production of W+W- pairs is analysed in a data sample collected by ALEPH at a mean centre-of-mass energy of 182.7 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 57 pb-1. Cross sections are given for different topologies of W decays…

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

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia

This report was prepared in the context of the LPCC "Electroweak Precision Measurements at the LHC WG" and summarizes the activity of a subgroup dedicated to the systematic comparison of public Monte Carlo codes, which describe the…

The high-energy and high-luminosity data-taking campaigns of the LEP e^+e^- collider provided the four collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, with about 50000 W-boson pairs and about a thousand singly-produced W bosons. This unique…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Salvatore Mele

The process e+e- -> W+ W- gamma is studied using the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP. New results, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 427.4 pb-1 at centre-of-mass energies from 192 GeV to 207 GeV, are presented. The W+W-…

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

For the first time, the pair production of the heavy charged gauge bosons, known as $W'$ bosons is considered, when both decay to $\tau$ leptons. The reported detailed efficiency of object/event selection by the CMS experiment is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-09 Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi , Leila Zamiri

Electroweak processes with four fermions in the final state were measured extensively at LEP-2 in e+e- collisions with centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. By combining the results obtained by Aleph, Delphi, L3 and Opal, the predictions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Bambade

We study the impact of LEP2 constraints on the dimensionless coefficients of the electroweak chiral Lagrangian on the precision observables using the improved renormalization group equations. We find that the current uncertainty in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sukanta Dutta , Kaoru Hagiwara , Qi-Shu Yan

The production of W-pairs is analysed in a data sample collected by ALEPH at a mean centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 174.2 pb^-1. Cross sections are given for different topologies of W decays…

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

We present a general purpose Monte Carlo program for the calculation of any infrared safe observable in WGamma and ZGamma production at hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in alpha_s. We treat the leptonic decays of the W and Z-boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 D. de Florian , A. Signer