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Determination of the mass of the W boson using the D∅ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron

B. Abbott30, M. Abolins27, B. S. Acharya45, I. Adam12, D. L. Adams39, M. Adams17, S. Ahn14, H. Aihara23, G. A. Alves10 et al. (D∅ Collaboration)

G. A. Alves10, E. Amidi31, N. Amos26, E. W. Anderson19, R. Astur44, M. M. Baarmand44, A. Baden25, V. Balamurali34, J. Balderston16, B. Baldin14, S. Banerjee45, J. Bantly5, E. Barberis23, J. F. Bartlett14, K. Bazizi41, A. Belyaev28, S. B. Beri36, I. Bertram33, V. A. Bezzubov37, P. C. Bhat14, V. Bhatnagar36, M. Bhattacharjee13, N. Biswas34, G. Blazey32, S. Blessing15, P. Bloom7, A. Boehnlein14, N. I. Bojko37, F. Borcherding14, C. Boswell9, A. Brandt14, R. Brock27, A. Bross14, D. Buchholz33, V. S. Burtovoi37, J. M. Butler3, W. Carvalho10, D. Casey41, Z. Casilum44, H. Castilla-Valdez11, D. Chakraborty44, S.-M. Chang31, S. V. Chekulaev37, L.-P. Chen23, W. Chen44, S. Choi43, S. Chopra26, B. C. Choudhary9, J. H. Christenson14, M. Chung17, D. Claes29, A. R. Clark23, W. G. Cobau25, J. Cochran9, W. E. Cooper14, C. Cretsinger41, D. Cullen-Vidal5, M. A. C. Cummings32, D. Cutts5, O. I. Dahl23, K. Davis2, K. De46, K. Del Signore26, M. Demarteau14, N. Denisenko14, D. Denisov14, S. P. Denisov37, H. T. Diehl14, M. Diesburg14, G. Di Loreto27, P. Draper46, Y. Ducros42, L. V. Dudko28, S. R. Dugad45, D. Edmunds27, J. Ellison9, V. D. Elvira44, R. Engelmann44, S. Eno25, G. Eppley39, P. Ermolov28, O. V. Eroshin37, V. N. Evdokimov37, T. Fahland8, M. Fatyga4, M. K. Fatyga41, S. Feher14, D. Fein2, T. Ferbel41, G. Finocchiaro44, H. E. Fisk14, Y. Fisyak7, E. Flattum14, G. E. Forden2, M. Fortner32, K. C. Frame27, S. Fuess14, E. Gallas46, A. N. Galyaev37, P. Gartung9, T. L. Geld27, R. J. Genik, II,27, K. Genser14, C. E. Gerber14, B. Gibbard4, S. Glenn7, B. Gobbi33, M. Goforth15, A. Goldschmidt23, B. Gómez1, G. Gómez25, P. I. Goncharov37, J. L. González Solís11, H. Gordon4, L. T. Goss47, K. Gounder9, A. Goussiou44, N. Graf4, P. D. Grannis44, D. R. Green14, J. Green32, H. Greenlee14, G. Grim7, S. Grinstein6, N. Grossman14, P. Grudberg23, S. Grünendahl41, G. Guglielmo35, J. A. Guida2, J. M. Guida5, A. Gupta45, S. N. Gurzhiev37, P. Gutierrez35, Y. E. Gutnikov37, N. J. Hadley25, H. Haggerty14, S. Hagopian15, V. Hagopian15, K. S. Hahn41, R. E. Hall8, P. Hanlet31, S. Hansen14, J. M. Hauptman19, D. Hedin32, A. P. Heinson9, U. Heintz14, R. Hernández-Montoya11, T. Heuring15, R. Hirosky15, J. D. Hobbs14, B. Hoeneisen1, J. S. Hoftun5, F. Hsieh26, Ting Hu44, Tong Hu18, T. Huehn9, A. S. Ito14, E. James2, J. Jaques34, S. A. Jerger27, R. Jesik18, J. Z.-Y. Jiang44, T. Joffe-Minor33, K. Johns2, M. Johnson14, A. Jonckheere14, M. Jones16, H. Jöstlein14, S. Y. Jun33, C. K. Jung44, S. Kahn4, G. Kalbfleisch35, J. S. Kang20, D. Karmgard15, R. Kehoe34, M. L. Kelly34, C. L. Kim20, S. K. Kim43, A. Klatchko15, B. Klima14, C. Klopfenstein7, V. I. Klyukhin37, V. I. Kochetkov37, J. M. Kohli36, D. Koltick38, A. V. Kostritskiy37, J. Kotcher4, A. V. Kotwal12, J. Kourlas30, A. V. Kozelov37, E. A. Kozlovski37, J. Krane29, M. R. Krishnaswamy45, S. Krzywdzinski14, S. Kunori25, S. Lami44, H. Lan14, R. Lander7, F. Landry27, G. Landsberg14, B. Lauer19, A. Leflat28, H. Li44, J. Li46, Q. Z. Li-Demarteau14, J. G. R. Lima40, D. Lincoln26, S. L. Linn15, J. Linnemann27, R. Lipton14, Y. C. Liu33, F. Lobkowicz41, S. C. Loken23, S. Lökös44, L. Lueking14, A. L. Lyon25, A. K. A. Maciel10, R. J. Madaras23, R. Madden15, L. Magaña-Mendoza11, S. Mani7, H. S. Mao14, R. Markeloff32, T. Marshall18, M. I. Martin14, K. M. Mauritz19, B. May33, A. A. Mayorov37, R. McCarthy44, J. McDonald15, T. McKibben17, J. McKinley27, T. McMahon35, H. L. Melanson14, M. Merkin28, K. W. Merritt14, H. Miettinen39, A. Mincer30, C. S. Mishra14, N. Mokhov14, N. K. Mondal45, H. E. Montgomery14, P. Mooney1, H. da Motta10, C. Murphy17, F. Nang2, M. Narain14, V. S. Narasimham45, A. Narayanan2, H. A. Neal26, J. P. Negret1, P. Nemethy30, D. Norman47, L. Oesch26, V. Oguri40, E. Oltman23, N. Oshima14, D. Owen27, P. Padley39, M. Pang19, A. Para14, Y. M. Park21, R. Partridge5, N. Parua45, M. Paterno41, B. Pawlik22, J. Perkins46, S. Peryshkin14, M. Peters16, R. Piegaia6, H. Piekarz15, Y. Pischalnikov38, V. M. Podstavkov37, B. G. Pope27, H. B. Prosper15, S. Protopopescu4, J. Qian26, P. Z. Quintas14, R. Raja14, S. Rajagopalan4, O. Ramirez17, L. Rasmussen44, S. Reucroft31, M. Rijssenbeek44, T. Rockwell27, N. A. Roe23, P. Rubinov33, R. Ruchti34, J. Rutherfoord2, A. Sánchez-Hernández11, A. Santoro10, L. Sawyer24, R. D. Schamberger44, H. Schellman33, J. Sculli30, E. Shabalina28, C. Shaffer15, H. C. Shankar45, R. K. Shivpuri13, M. Shupe2, H. Singh9, J. B. Singh36, V. Sirotenko32, W. Smart14, R. P. Smith14, R. Snihur33, G. R. Snow29, J. Snow35, S. Snyder4, J. Solomon17, P. M. Sood36, M. Sosebee46, N. Sotnikova28, M. Souza10, A. L. Spadafora23, R. W. Stephens46, M. L. Stevenson23, D. Stewart26, F. Stichelbaut44, D. A. Stoianova37, D. Stoker8, M. Strauss35, K. Streets30, M. Strovink23, A. Sznajder10, P. Tamburello25, J. Tarazi8, M. Tartaglia14, T. L. T. Thomas33, J. Thompson25, T. G. Trippe23, P. M. Tuts12, N. Varelas27, E. W. Varnes23, D. Vititoe2, A. A. Volkov37, A. P. Vorobiev37, H. D. Wahl15, G. Wang15, J. Warchol34, G. Watts5, M. Wayne34, H. Weerts27, A. White46, J. T. White47, J. A. Wightman19, S. Willis32, S. J. Wimpenny9, J. V. D. Wirjawan47, J. Womersley14, E. Won41, D. R. Wood31, H. Xu5, R. Yamada14, P. Yamin4, J. Yang30, T. Yasuda31, P. Yepes39, C. Yoshikawa16, S. Youssef15, J. Yu14, Y. Yu43, Q. Zhu30, Z. H. Zhu41, D. Zieminska18, A. Zieminski18, E. G. Zverev28, and A. Zylberstejn42 (D∅ Collaboration)

  • 1Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
  • 2University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
  • 3Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
  • 4Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
  • 5Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
  • 6Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 7University of California, Davis, California 95616
  • 8University of California, Irvine, California 92697
  • 9University of California, Riverside, California 92521
  • 10LAFEX, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 11CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 12Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
  • 13Delhi University, Delhi, India 110007
  • 14Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
  • 15Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
  • 16University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
  • 17University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
  • 18Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
  • 19Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
  • 20Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  • 21Kyungsung University, Pusan, Korea
  • 22Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków, Poland
  • 23Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
  • 24Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272
  • 25University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
  • 26University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
  • 27Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
  • 28Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  • 29University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • 30New York University, New York, New York 10003
  • 31Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
  • 32Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115
  • 33Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
  • 34University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
  • 35University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
  • 36University of Panjab, Chandigarh 16-00-14, India
  • 37Institute for High Energy Physics, 142-284 Protvino, Russia
  • 38Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
  • 39Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
  • 40Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 41University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
  • 42CEA, DAPNIA/Service de Physique des Particules, CE-SACLAY, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 43Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • 44State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
  • 45Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India
  • 46University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019
  • 47Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843

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Phys. Rev. D 58, 012002 – Published 9 June, 1998

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.012002

Abstract

A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented which is based on a sample of 5982 W→eν decays observed in pp¯ collisions at s=1.8 TeV with the D∅ detector during the 1992–1993 run. From a fit to the transverse mass spectrum, combined with measurements of the Z boson mass, the W boson mass is measured to be MW=80.350±0.140(stat)±0.165(syst)±0.160(scale) GeV/c2. Detailed discussions of the determination of the absolute energy scale, the measured efficiencies, and all systematic uncertainties are presented.

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Phys. Rev. D 58, 012002– Published 9 June, 1998
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