Download or read book A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass written by Jun Guo (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I present the first measurement of the W boson mass in the electron decay channel using the Run II D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The data used was collected from 2002 to 2006 and the integrated luminosity is 1 fb−1. The W boson mass was determined from the likelihood fit to the measured data distribution. The mass value is found to be 80.401 ± 0.023(stat) ± 0.037(syst) GeV = 80.401 ± 0.044 GeV using the transverse mass spectrum, which is the most precise measurement from one single experiment to date. This result puts tighter constraints on the mass of the standard model Higgs boson. I also present three other measurements that can help to reduce the theoretical uncertainties for the future W mass measurements.

Download or read book A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass with 1 Inverse Femtobarn of DZero Run IIa Data written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a detailed presentation of a precision measurement of the mass of the W boson. It has been obtained by analyzing W → e[nu] decays. The data used for this analysis was collected from 2002 to 2006 with the D0 detector, during Run IIa of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. It corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 1 fb−1. With a sample of 499,830 W → e[nu] candidate events, we obtain a mass measurement of M{sub W} = 80.401 ± 0.043 GeV. This is the most precise measurement from a single experiment to date.

Download or read book Precision Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson at CDF written by Sarah Alam Malik and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Precision Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson at CDF written by S. Malik and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precision measurement of the mass and width of the W boson is presented. The W bosons are produced in proton antiproton collisions occurring at a centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron accelerator. The data used for the analyses is collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and corresponds to an average integrated luminosity of 350 pb-1 for the W width analysis for the electron and muon channels and an average integrated luminosity of 2350 pb-1 for the W mass analysis. The mass and width of the W boson is extracted by fitting to the transverse mass distribution, with the peak of the distribution being most sensitive to the mass and the tail of the distribution sensitive to the width. The W width measurement in the electron and muon channels is combined to give a final result of 2032 ± 73 MeV. The systematic uncertainty on the W mass from the recoil of the W boson against the initial state gluon radiation is discussed. A systematic study of the recoil in Z \rightarrow e+e- events where one electron is reconstructed in the central calorimeter and the other in the plug calorimeter and its effect on the W mass is presented for the first time in this thesis.

Download or read book Precision Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson at CDF written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precision measurement of the mass and width of the W boson is presented. The W bosons are produced in proton antiproton collisions occurring at a centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron accelerator. The data used for the analyses is collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and corresponds to an average integrated luminosity of 350 pb−1 for the W width analysis for the electron and muon channels and an average integrated luminosity of 2350 pb−1 for the W mass analysis. The mass and width of the W boson is extracted by fitting to the transverse mass distribution, with the peak of the distribution being most sensitive to the mass and the tail of the distribution sensitive to the width. The W width measurement in the electron and muon channels is combined to give a final result of 2032 ± 73 MeV. The systematic uncertainty on the W mass from the recoil of the W boson against the initial state gluon radiation is discussed. A systematic study of the recoil in Z --> ee− events where one electron is reconstructed in the central calorimeter and the other in the plug calorimeter and its effect on the W mass is presented for the first time in this thesis.

Download or read book Towards a First Precision Measurement of the Mass of the W boson with the ATLAS Detector at Root Out S written by Christoph Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Working Group on Precision Measurements Measurements of the W Boson Mass and Width written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We discuss the prospects for measuring the W mass and width in Run II. The basic techniques used to measure M{sub W} are described and the statistical, theoretical and detector-related uncertainties are discussed in detail. Alternative methods of measuring the W mass at the Tevatron and the prospects for M{sub W} measurements at other colliders are also described.

Download or read book Precision Matters Measurement of the W Boson Mass and Width with the ATLAS Detector at a Centre of mass Energy of 7 TeV and the Activity of the Underlying Event in Z Boson Events at a Centre of mass Energy of 13 TeV written by Lennart Adam and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PDF and QCD Effects in the Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Precision Matters Measurement of the W Boson Mass and Width with the ATLAS Detector at a Centre of mass Energy of 7 TeV and the Activity of the Underlying Event in Z Boson Events at a Centre of mass Energy of 13 TeV written by Lennart Adam and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PDF and QCD Eects in the Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF written by D. P. Beecher and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sample of W \rightarrow ev (W \rightarrow \mu v) and Z 0 \rightarrow e +e - (Z 0 \rightarrow \mu +\mu -) events recorded by the CDF detector for pp- collisions at \sqrt(s-hat) = 1:96 TeV with a total integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb -1 are used to evaluate the systematic uncertainty in the determination of the W boson mass arising from uncertainties in the parton distribution functions and higher-order QCD effects. The systematic contribution of PDFs is determined to be 10 MeV for MSTW2008 NLO and 12 MeV for CTEQ6.6. The total systematic contribution arising from higher-order QCD eects in 9 MeV. The unfolded Z0 transverse momentum distribution is presented, and estimates of parameters in a phenomenological model describing low transverse momentum Z 0 events are extracted.

Download or read book PDF and QCD Effects in the Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sample of W → ev (W → [mu][nu]) and Z0 → e+e- (Z0 → [mu]+[mu]-) events recorded by the CDF detector for p$\bar{p}$ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV are used to evaluate the systematic uncertainty in the determination of the W boson mass arising from uncertainties in the parton distribution functions and higher-order QCD effects. The systematic contribution of PDFs is determined to be 10 MeV/c2 for MSTW2008 NLO and 12 MeV/c2 for CTEQ6.6. The total systematic contribution arising from higher-order QCD effects in 9 MeV/c2. The Z0 events are used to extract improved estimates of the phenomenological parameters in the BLNY model that describes low transverse momentum.

Download or read book Precise Measurement of the W boson Mass with the CDF II Detector written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have measured the W-boson mass M{sub W} using data corresponding to 2.2 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected in p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Samples consisting of 470 126 W → e? candidates and 624 708 W →?? candidates yield the measurement M{sub W} = 80 387 ± 12{sub stat} ± 15{sub syst} = 80 387 ± 19 MeV/c2. This is the most precise measurement of the W-boson mass to date and significantly exceeds the precision of all previous measurements combined.

Download or read book High precision W boson Studies with LHCb written by Ross Hunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details a new and ground-breaking contribution to the search for a successor to the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics - the largest modern endeavour in the field. In the hope of seeing a discrepancy with the SM's predictions, this work discusses two hitherto unforeseen measurements at the frontier of experimental precision: a measurement of W-boson mass and a test of the fundamental axiom of the W boson's lepton flavour universality (LFU). Both measurements are made by analysing collision data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and represent the establishment of a new field of high-precision Standard Model tests with LHCb. This book also describes the development of new software tools for the optimisation of the LHCb trigger system, which helps to ensure that LHCb's exciting physics program can continue to prosper into the future. This book is accessible to those with graduate—or master's—level training in experimental particle physics.

Download or read book Measuring the Mass of the W Boson with the Last 3 7 Fb 1 of Tevatron Data written by Michelle Brochmann and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents the results of an analysis of the 3.7 {fb}^{-1} of Tevatron proton-antiproton data collected with the DZero (D0) Detector at Fermilab during the ``RunIIb34'' period, with the goal of extracting an improved measurement of the $W$ boson mass, which is currently measured to a precision of approx 20,{MeV}. The measurement is performed on events with one W boson which decays to an electron and a neutrino. Using a template technique, the mass is measured from three distributions that are correlated with the W boson mass: the transverse electron momentum, p_T^e, the transverse W mass, m_T$ and the neutrino momentum, which appears as missing transverse energy, {E}_T. A test measurement using this technique is successfully performed on a mock dataset generated with a Monte Carlo simulation. In the data, we find unexpected azimuthally dependent inconsistencies between the early and late parts of the data taking period. Implications for the completion of the data measurement are discussed.

Download or read book The Mass and Width of the W Boson written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tevatron and LEP2 experiments presently provide the most precise direct determinations of the mass and width of the W boson. The combined results are: M[sub w]= 80.394[+-] 0.042 GeV and[Gamma][sub w]= 2.095[+-] 0.106 GeV. The results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of the Standard Model. In this article the latest results are described and the systematic errors which could limit further significant improvements in the precision of these measurements are reviewed.