Measurement of the Z boson mass using e+ e- ---> Z gamma events at center of mass energies above the Z pole

Collaboration
Nov, 2003
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 585 (2004) 42-52
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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