A measurement of the W boson mass at the Fermilab p(p)over-bar collider

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abolins, M
Acharya, BS
Adam, I
Adams, DL
Adams, M
Ahn, S
Aihara, H
Alves, GA
Amos, N
Anderson, EW
Astur, R
Baarmand, MM
Baden, A
Balamurali, V
Balderston, J
Baldin, B
Banerjee, S
Bantly, J
Barberis, E
Bartlett, JF
Bazizi, K
Belyaev, A
Beri, SB
Bertram, I
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
Bhattacharjee, M
Biswas, N
Blazey, G
Blessing, S
Bloom, P
Boehnlein, A
Bojko, NI
Borcherding, F
Boswell, C
Brandt, A
Brock, R
Bross, A
Buchholz, D
Burtovoi, VS
Butler, JM
Carvalho, W
Casey, D
Casilum, Z
Castilla-Valdez, H
Chakraborty, D
Chang, SM
Chekulaev, SV
机构
[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[3] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[4] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[5] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[6] Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[7] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[8] Univ Calif Davis, Livermore, CA 95616 USA
[9] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[10] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[11] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[12] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[13] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[14] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[15] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[16] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[17] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[18] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[19] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[20] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[21] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[22] Kyungsung Univ, Pusan 608736, South Korea
[23] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[24] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[25] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[26] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[27] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[28] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[29] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[30] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[31] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[32] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[33] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[34] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[35] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[36] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[37] Protvino High Energy Phys Inst, Protvino 142284, Russia
[38] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[39] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[40] Univ do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[41] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[42] CE Saclay, Serv Phys Particules, DAPNIA, CEA, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[43] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[44] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[45] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Mumbai 400005, India
[46] Univ Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[47] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3008
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We report a measurement of the W boson mass based on an integrated luminosity of 82 pb(-1) from <p(p)over bar> collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV recorded in 1994-1995 by the DO detector at the Fermilab We identify W bosons by their decays to ev and extract the mass by fitting the transverse mass spectrum from 28 323 W boson candidates. A sample of 3563 dielectron events, mostly due to Z --> ee decays, constrains models of W boson production and the detector. We measure M-W = 80.44 +/- 0.10(stat) +/- 0.07(syst) GeV. By combining this measurement with our result form the 1992-1993 data set, we obtain M-W = 80.43 +/- 0.11 GeV.
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页码:3008 / 3013
页数:6
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