Measurement of the $W$ mass in $e^{+} e^{-}$ collisions at 183-GeV

Barate, R.; Decamp, D.; Ghez, Philippe; Goy, C.; Jezequel, S.; Lees, J.P.; Martin, F.; Merle, E.; Minard, M.N.; Pietrzyk, B.

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00305-6

Measurement of the $W$ mass in $e^{+} e^{-}$ collisions at 183-GeV

ALEPH

Collaboration

•

R. Barate
(
- Annecy, LAPP
)

Feb, 1999

21 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 453 (1999) 121-137

DOI:

10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00305-6

Report number:

CERN-EP-99-027,
CERN-EP-99-27

Experiments:

CERN-LEP-ALEPH

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The mass of the W boson is obtained from reconstructed invariant mass distributions in W-pair events. The sample of W pairs is selected from 57 pb −1 collected with the ALEPH detector in 1997 at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. The invariant mass distributions of reweighted Monte Carlo events are fitted separately to the experimental distributions in the q q ̄ q q ̄ and all ℓν q q ̄ channels to give the following W masses: m W hadronic =80.461±0.177 (stat.) ±0.045 (syst.) ±0.056 (theory) GeV /c 2 , m W semileptonic =80.326±0.184 (stat.) ±0.040 (syst.) GeV /c 2 , where the theory error represents the possible effects of final state interactions. The combination of these two measurements, including the LEP energy calibration uncertainty, gives m W =80.393±0.128 (stat.) ±0.041 (syst.) ±0.028 (theory) ±0.021 (LEP) GeV /c 2 .

electron positron: colliding beams
electron positron: annihilation
W: pair production
W: mass
W: leptonic decay
W: hadronic decay
ALEPH
experimental results
CERN LEP Stor
electron positron --> 2W

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