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Title: Precision measurements of W and Z boson production and their decays to electrons at hadron colliders

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1341811· OSTI ID:1341811

For many measurements at hadron colliders, such as cross sections and branching ratios, the uncertainty of the integrated luminosity is an important contribution to the error of the final result. In 1997, the ETH Zurich group proposed a new approach to determine the integrated luminosity via a counting measurement of the W and Z bosons through their decays to leptons. In this thesis this proposal has been applied on real data as well as on simulation for a future experiment.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1341811
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS-2006-95; 1510517
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English