Measurement of the W Boson Mass

Baringer, Philip S.; Bean, Alice; Clutter, Justace Randall; Moulik, Tania; Wilson, Graham Wallace; Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.

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2009-10-01

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Baringer, Philip S.

Bean, Alice

Clutter, Justace Randall

Moulik, Tania

Wilson, Graham Wallace

Abazov, V. M.

Abbott, B.

Abolins, M.

Acharya, B. S.

Adams, M.

Adams, T.

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American Physical Society

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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the W boson mass in W→eν decays using 1 fb(−1) of data collected with the D0 detector during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. With a sample of 499830 W→eν candidate events, we measure M(W)=80.401±0.043 GeV. This is the most precise measurement from a single experiment.

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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.141801.

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V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2009). "Measurement of the W Boson Mass." Physical Review Letters, 103(14):141801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.141801.

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