Measurement of M{sub ital W} using the transverse mass ratio of W and Z

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:431656

Rajagopalan, S; Rijssenbeek, M ^[1]

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1. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics

We report on the measurement of W boson mass from a determination of the ratio of the transverse masses of {ital W} and {ital Z} using the DO detector at the Fermilab Tevatron {ital p{anti p}} Collider operating at {radical}{ital s} = 1.8 TeV. The analysis is a preliminary result based on a partial data sample of 13 pb{sup -1} using W {r_arrow} {ital e{sup -}{mu}{sup +}} and Z {r_arrow} {ital e{sup -}e{sup +}} decays. The mass ratio can also be extracted by comparing the shapes of the electron E{sub T} and & distribution from W and Z decays.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 431656
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-96/452-E; CONF-9606243-39; ON: DE97051161
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1996 DPF/DPB workshop on new directions for high energy physics, Snowmass, CO (United States), 25 Jun - 12 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
MASS
PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS
FERMILAB TEVATRON
TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM
DATA ANALYSIS