Measurement of the Z boson mass using e+ e- ---> Z gamma events at center of mass energies above the Z pole
Collaboration
15 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 585 (2004) 42-52
e-Print:
- hep-ex/0402001 [hep-ex]
PDG: MASS
Report number:
- CERN-EP-2003-074
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Abstract:
Events from the e+e- -> Zgamma process with hard initial state radiation collected with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV are used to measure the mass of the Z boson. Decays of the Z boson into hadrons or muon pairs are considered and the Z mass is determined to be 91.272 +- 0.032 (stat.) +- 0.033 (syst.) GeV, in agreement with the value measured at the Z resonance. Alternatively, assuming this measured value of the Z mass, the method determines the LEP beam energy, found to be 87 +- 34 (stat.) \pm 34 (syst.) MeV lower than the nominal value.- electron positron: colliding beams
- electron positron: annihilation
- Z0: electroproduction
- photon: associated production
- radiation: initial-state interaction
- Z0: leptonic decay
- Z0: hadronic decay
- Z0: mass
- L3
- experimental results
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