Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4

Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
National Center for Energy, Nuclear Science and Technology
CERN
Mohamed I University
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas at Arlington
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
IN2P3/CNRS
University of Toronto
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
The University of Tokyo
AGH University of Krakow
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Belgrade
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Instituto de Física La Plata
National Technical University of Athens
Czech Technical University in Prague
University of Salento

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A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented based on proton–proton collision data recorded in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and corresponding to 4.6fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The selected data sample consists of 7.8 × 10 ⁶ candidates in the W→ μν channel and 5.9 × 10 ⁶ candidates in the W→ eν channel. The W-boson mass is obtained from template fits to the reconstructed distributions of the charged lepton transverse momentum and of the W boson transverse mass in the electron and muon decay channels, yielding (Formula presented.) where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second corresponds to the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third to the physics-modelling systematic uncertainty. A measurement of the mass difference between the W⁺ and W^- bosons yields mW+-mW-=-29±28 MeV.

Original language	English
Article number	110
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	78
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4
State	Published - Feb 1 2018

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Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

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