REVIEW OF THE PROPERTIES OF THE W BOSON AT LEP, AND THE PRECISION DETERMINATION OF ITS MASS
- 10 November 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Vol. 18 (28) , 5127-5220
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x03015180
Abstract
We review the precision measurement of the mass and couplings of the W boson at LEP. The total and differential W+W-cross section is used to extract the WWZ and WWγ couplings. We discuss the techniques used by the four LEP experiments to determine the W mass in different decay channels, and present the details of methods used to evaluate the sources of systematic uncertainty.Keywords
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