Precise Measurement of the W-Boson Mass with the CDF II Detector
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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Date Issued
April 2012
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration). "Precise Measurement of the W-Boson Mass with the CDF II Detector" Physical Review Letters 108, 151803 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We have measured the W-boson mass M[superscript W] using data corresponding to 2.2 fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity collected in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Samples consisting of 470 126 W→eν candidates and 624 708 W→μν candidates yield the measurement M[superscript W]=80 387±12[subscript stat.]±15[subscript syst.]=80 387±19 MeV/c[superscript 2]. This is the most precise measurement of the W-boson mass to date and significantly exceeds the precision of all previous measurements combined.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.151803
