13–17 Aug 2013
University of California, Santa Cruz
US/Pacific timezone

Measurements of the W boson mass with the D0 detector

15 Aug 2013, 11:30
20m
Cowell 131 (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Cowell 131

University of California, Santa Cruz

oral presentation Electroweak Physics Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Mandy Rominsky (Fermilab)

Description

We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector during Run 2 at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar collider. With a sample of 1,677,394 W--> e nu candidate events, we measure M_W = 80.367 +/- 0.026 GeV. This result is combined with an earlier D0 result determined using an independent Run 2 data sample, corresponding to 1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity, to yield M_W=80.375+/-0.023 GeV.
APS member ID VA588221

Primary author

Mandy Rominsky (Fermilab)

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