Measurement of the W boson mass and width in e+e- collisions at LEP

The mass of the W boson is determined from the direct reconstruction of W decays in WW→qq̄qq̄ and WW→ℓνqq̄ events in e+e- collisions at LEP. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 683 pb-1 collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. To minimise any...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2006-08, Vol.47 (2), p.309-335
Hauptverfasser:	Schael, S., Barate, R., Brunelière, R., De Bonis, I., Decamp, D., Goy, C., Jézéquel, S., Lees, J.-P., Martin, F., Merle, E., Minard, M.-N., Pietrzyk, B., Trocmé, B., Bravo, S., Casado, M.P., Chmeissani, M., Crespo, J.M., Fernandez, E., Fernandez-Bosman, M., Garrido, L., Martinez, M., Pacheco, A., Ruiz, H., Colaleo, A., Creanza, D., De Filippis, N., de Palma, M., Iaselli, G., Maggi, G., Maggi, M., Nuzzo, S., Ranieri, A., Raso, G., Ruggieri, F., Selvaggi, G., Silvestris, L., Tempesta, P., Tricomi, A., Zito, G., Huang, X., Lin, J., Ouyang, Q., Wang, T., Xie, Y., Xu, R., Xue, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, W., Abbaneo, D., Barklow, T., Buchmüller, O., Cattaneo, M., Clerbaux, B., Drevermann, H., Forty, R.W., Frank, M., Gianotti, F., Hansen, J.B., Harvey, J., Hutchcroft, D.E., Janot, P., Jost, B., Kado, M., Mato, P., Moutoussi, A., Ranjard, F., Rolandi, L., Schlatter, D., Teubert, F., Valassi, A., Videau, I., Badaud, F., Dessagne, S., Falvard, A., Fayolle, D., Gay, P., Jousset, J., Michel, B., Monteil, S., Pallin, D., Pascolo, J.M., Perret, P., Hansen, J.D., Hansen, J.R., Hansen, P.H., Kraan, A.C., Nilsson, B.S., Kyriakis, A., Markou, C., Simopoulou, E., Vayaki, A., Zachariadou, K., Blondel, A., Brient, J.-C., Machefert, F., Rougé, A., Videau, H., Ciulli, V., Focardi, E.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Collisions High Energy Physics - Experiment Luminosity Parameter uncertainty Physics
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Zusammenfassung:	The mass of the W boson is determined from the direct reconstruction of W decays in WW→qq̄qq̄ and WW→ℓνqq̄ events in e+e- collisions at LEP. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 683 pb-1 collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. To minimise any effect from colour reconnection a new procedure is adopted in which low energy particles are not considered in the mass determination from the qq̄qq̄ channel. The combined result from all channels is \(m_{\text{W}}=80.440 \pm0.043{\text{(stat.)}} \pm0.024{\text{(syst.)}} \pm0.009{\text{(FSI)}} \pm0.009{\text{(LEP)}} \text{GeV/}c^2, \)where FSI represents the possible effects of final state interactions in the qq̄qq̄ channel and LEP indicates the uncertainty in the beam energy. From two-parameter fits to the W mass and width, the W width is found to be \(\Gamma_{\text{W}} = 2.14 \pm0.09{\text{(stat.)}} \pm0.04{\text{(syst.)}} \pm0.05{\text{(FSI)}} \pm0.01{\text{(LEP)}} \text{GeV}. \)
ISSN:	1434-6044 1434-6052
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s2006-02576-8