Monday, March 5, 2012

1203.0275 (T. Aaltonen et al.)

Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the CDF II detector    [PDF]

T. Aaltonen, for the CDF Collaboration
We have measured the W-boson mass MW using data corresponding to 2.2/fb of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Samples consisting of 470126 W->enu candidates and 624708 W->munu candidates yield the measurement MW = 80387 +- 12 (stat) +- 15 (syst) = 80387 +- 19 MeV. This is the most precise measurement of the W-boson mass to date and significantly exceeds the precision of all previous measurements combined.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0275

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