Measurement of the $W$ Boson Mass

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14 October 1996

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 77 (16) , 3309-3314
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.3309

Abstract

A measurement of the mass of the

W

boson is presented based on a sample of 5982

W \to e ν

decays observed in

p \bar{p}

collisions at

\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV

with the D0 detector during the 1992–1993 run. From a fit to the transverse mass spectrum, combined with measurements of the

Z

boson mass, the

W

boson mass is measured to be

M_{W} = 80.350 \pm 0.140 (stat) \pm 0.165 (syst) \pm 0.160 (scale) GeV / c^{2}

.

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