Measurement of mass and width of the W boson at LEP

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Acciarri, M [1 ]
Achard, P
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanmi, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Balandras, A
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
Braccini, S
机构
[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] NIKHEF, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[6] ENSLAPP, LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[7] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[8] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[9] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[10] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[11] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[12] INFN, Sezione Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[14] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[15] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[16] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[17] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[18] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[20] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[21] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[22] FBLJA, World Lab, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[23] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[24] Univ Sci & Technol China, USTC, Hefei 230029, Peoples R China
[25] Res Inst High Energy Phsy, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[26] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[27] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[28] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[29] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[30] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[31] CIEMAT, Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[33] ITEP, Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
[34] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[35] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[37] Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[38] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[41] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[42] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[43] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[45] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[46] Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
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10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00348-2
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摘要
We report on measurements of the mass and total decay width of the W boson with the L3 detector at LEP. W-pair events produced in e(+)e(-) interactions between 161 GeV and 183 GeV centre-of-mass energy are selected in a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 76.7 pb(-1). Combining all final states in W-pair production, the mass and total decay width of the W boson are determined to be m(W) = 80.61 +/- 0.15 GeV and Gamma(W) = 1.97 +/- 0.38 GeV, respectively. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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