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Download or read book A Precise Measurement of the $W$-boson Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Improved W Boson Mass Measurement Using the Collider Detector at Fermilab written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass of the W boson is one of the most important parameters in the Standard Model. A precise measurement of the W boson mass, together with a precise measurement of the top quark mass, can constrain the mass of the undiscovered Higgs boson within the Standard Model framework or give a hint for physics beyond the Standard Model. This dissertation describes a measurement of the W boson mass through its decay into a muon and a neutrino using ~ 2.2 fb-1 of √ s = 1.96 TeV p$\bar{p}$ data taken with the CDF II detector at Fermilab. We measure the W boson mass to be (80.374 ± 0.015stat. ± 0.016syst.) GeV/c2. This result, when combined with the W mass measurement in the electron channel, leads to the single most precise mW value and greatly constrains the possible mass range of the undiscovered Higgs boson. iv.
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Download or read book Precise Measurement of the $W$-boson Mass with the CDF II Detector written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have measured the W-boson mass M{sub W} using data corresponding to 2.2 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected in p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Samples consisting of 470 126 W → e? candidates and 624 708 W →?? candidates yield the measurement M{sub W} = 80 387 ± 12{sub stat} ± 15{sub syst} = 80 387 ± 19 MeV/c2. This is the most precise measurement of the W-boson mass to date and significantly exceeds the precision of all previous measurements combined.
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Download or read book A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I present the first measurement of the W boson mass in the electron decay channel using the Run II D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The data used was collected from 2002 to 2006 and the integrated luminosity is 1 fb−1. The W boson mass was determined from the likelihood fit to the measured data distribution. The mass value is found to be 80.401 ± 0.023(stat) ± 0.037(syst) GeV = 80.401 ± 0.044 GeV using the transverse mass spectrum, which is the most precise measurement from one single experiment to date. This result puts tighter constraints on the mass of the standard model Higgs boson. I also present three other measurements that can help to reduce the theoretical uncertainties for the future W mass measurements.
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Download or read book Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab written by Andrew Scott Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass with 1 Inverse Femtobarn of DZero Run IIa Data written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a detailed presentation of a precision measurement of the mass of the W boson. It has been obtained by analyzing W → e[nu] decays. The data used for this analysis was collected from 2002 to 2006 with the D0 detector, during Run IIa of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. It corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 1 fb−1. With a sample of 499,830 W → e[nu] candidate events, we obtain a mass measurement of M{sub W} = 80.401 ± 0.043 GeV. This is the most precise measurement from a single experiment to date.
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Download or read book Measurement of the W Boson Mass written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a measurement of the W boson mass in W → e[nu] decays using 1 fb−1 of data collected with the D0 detector during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. With a sample of 499830 W → e[nu] candidate events, they measure M{sub W} = 80.401 ± 0.043 GeV. This is the most precise measurement from a single experiment.
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Download or read book Measurement of the W Boson Mass at the Collider Detector at Fermilab from a Fit to the Transverse Momentum Spectrum of the Muon written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes a measurement of the W boson mass from a fit to the transverse momentum spectrum of the muon in W decay. In past measurements this technique was used as a cross-check, however, now presents the best method in terms of systematic uncertainty. We discuss all sources of systematic uncertainty with emphasis on those to which the muon p{sub T} measurement is particularly sensitive, specifically, those associated with modeling the production and decay of W bosons. The data were collected with the CDF II detector between March 2002 and September 2003 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of (191 ± 11) pb−1. We measure the W mass to be (80.316 ± 0.066{sub stat.} ± 0.051{sub syst.}) GeV/c2 = (80.316 ± 0.083) GeV/c2.
Author : Ian E. Vollrath
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Measurement of the W Boson Mass at the Collider Detector at Fermilab from a Fit to the Transverse Momentum Spectrum of the Muon written by Ian E. Vollrath and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes a measurement of the W boson mass from a fit to the transverse momentum spectrum of the muon in W decay. In past measurements this technique was used as a cross-check, however, now presents the best method in terms of systematic uncertainty. We discuss all sources of systematic uncertainty with emphasis on those to which the Muon pT measurement is particularly sensitive, specifically, those associated with modelling the production and decay of W bosons. The data were collected with the CDF II detector between March 2002 and September 2003 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of (191 +/- 11) pb-1. We measure the W mass to be (80.316 +/- 0.066stat. +/- 0.051syst.) GeV/c2 = (80.316 +/- 0.083) GeV/ c2.
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Download or read book W Boson Mass Measurement at CDF. written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the closeout report for the grant for experimental research at the energy frontier in high energy physics. The report describes the precise measurement of the W boson mass at the CDF experiment at Fermilab, with an uncertainty of ≈ 12 MeV, using the full dataset of ≈ 9 fb-1 collected by the experiment up to the shutdown of the Tevatron in 2011. In this analysis, the statistical and most of the experimental systematic uncertainties have been reduced by a factor of two compared to the previous measurement with 2.2 fb-1 of CDF data. This research has been the culmination of the PI's track record of producing world-leading measurements of the W boson mass from the Tevatron. The PI performed the first and only measurement to date of the W boson mass using high-rapidity leptons using the D0 endcap calorimeters in Run 1. He has led this measurement in Run 2 at CDF, publishing two world-leading measurements in 2007 and 2012 with total uncertainties of 48 MeV and 19 MeV respectively. The analysis of the final dataset is currently under internal review in CDF. Upon approval of the internal review, the result will be available for public release.
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Download or read book Precision Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson at CDF. written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precision measurement of the mass and width of the W boson is presented. The W bosons are produced in proton antiproton collisions occurring at a centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron accelerator. The data used for the analyses is collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and corresponds to an average integrated luminosity of 350 pb−1 for the W width analysis for the electron and muon channels and an average integrated luminosity of 2350 pb−1 for the W mass analysis. The mass and width of the W boson is extracted by fitting to the transverse mass distribution, with the peak of the distribution being most sensitive to the mass and the tail of the distribution sensitive to the width. The W width measurement in the electron and muon channels is combined to give a final result of 2032 ± 73 MeV. The systematic uncertainty on the W mass from the recoil of the W boson against the initial state gluon radiation is discussed. A systematic study of the recoil in Z --> ee− events where one electron is reconstructed in the central calorimeter and the other in the plug calorimeter and its effect on the W mass is presented for the first time in this thesis.
Author : S. Malik
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Download or read book Precision Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson at CDF. written by S. Malik and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precision measurement of the mass and width of the W boson is presented. The W bosons are produced in proton antiproton collisions occurring at a centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron accelerator. The data used for the analyses is collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and corresponds to an average integrated luminosity of 350 pb-1 for the W width analysis for the electron and muon channels and an average integrated luminosity of 2350 pb-1 for the W mass analysis. The mass and width of the W boson is extracted by fitting to the transverse mass distribution, with the peak of the distribution being most sensitive to the mass and the tail of the distribution sensitive to the width. The W width measurement in the electron and muon channels is combined to give a final result of 2032 ± 73 MeV. The systematic uncertainty on the W mass from the recoil of the W boson against the initial state gluon radiation is discussed. A systematic study of the recoil in Z \rightarrow e+e- events where one electron is reconstructed in the central calorimeter and the other in the plug calorimeter and its effect on the W mass is presented for the first time in this thesis.
Download or read book Measurement of the $W$ Boson Mass with the D0 Detector written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We give a detailed description of the measurement of the $W$ boson mass, $M_W$, performed on an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb$^{-1}$, which is based on similar techniques as used for our previous measurement done on an independent data set of 1 fb$^{-1}$ of data. The data were collected using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. This data set yields $1.68\times 10^6$ $W\rightarrow e\nu$ candidate events. We measure the mass using the transverse mass, electron transverse momentum, and missing transverse energy distributions. The $M_W$ measurements using the transverse mass and the electron transverse momentum distributions are the most precise of these three and are combined to give $M_W$ = 80.367 $\pm$ 0.013 (stat) $\pm$ 0.022 (syst) GeV = 80.367 $\pm$ 0.026 GeV. When combined with our earlier measurement on 1 fb$^{-1}$ of data, we obtain $M_W$ = 80.375 $\pm$ 0.023 GeV.
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Download or read book First Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present a measurement of the W boson mass using 200 pb−1 of data collected in p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. With a sample of 63964 W → ev candidates and 51128 W W → [mu]v candidates, we measure M{sub W} = (80413 ± 34{sub stat} ±34{sub syst} = 80413 ± 48) MeV/c2. This is the most precise single measurement of the W boson mass to date.
Download or read book Direct and Indirect Measurements of the W Boson Mass at Fermilab written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented are the direct measurements of the W boson mass from the CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab p[bar p] collider using data from the 1994--1995 run. The W from the D0 experiment is 80.44[+-] 0.12 GeV and the preliminary mass from CDF is 80.43[+-] 0.16 GeV. Combining these mass values with the previous Tevatron measurements leads to a M[sub W] 80.41[+-] 0.09 GeV. Also, presented is the new measurement of sin[sup 2][Theta][sub W][sup on-shell]= 0.2199[+-] 0.0020(stat)[+-] 0.0009(syst) from the deep inelastic neutrino scattering experiment (NuTeV) at Fermilab. In the context of the Standard Model this can be interpreted as a M[sub W]= 80.53[+-] 0.11 GeV.
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Download or read book Measurements of the $W$ Boson Mass with the D0 Detector written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first part, we describe what is the W boson mass in the context of the Standard Model. We discuss the prominent role this physical observable plays in the determination of the internal self consistency of the Electroweak Sector. We review measurements and calculation of the W boson mass done in past and argue about the importance and feasibility of improving the experimental determination. We give a description of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider and the D0 detector, highlighting the relevant parts for the measurement described in this Dissertation. In the second part, we give a detailed description of a measurement of the W boson mass using the D0 Central Calorimeter. The measurement uses 1.68 x 106 candidates from W → en decays, corresponding to 4.3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected from 2006 to 2009. We measure the mass using the transverse mass, electron transverse momentum, and missing transverse energy distributions. The transverse mass and electron transverse momentum measurements are the most precise and are combined to give MW = 80.367 ± 0.013(stat) ± 0.023 (syst) GeV = 80.367 ± 0.026 GeV. This is combined with an earlier D0 result determined using an independent 1 fb-1 data sample, also with central electrons only, to give MW = 80.375± 0.023 GeV. The uncertainty in the measurement is dominated by the determination of the calorimeter electron energy scale, the W sample size, the knowledge of the parton distribution function. In the third part, we discuss methods of reducing the dominant uncertainties in the W boson mass measurements. We show that introducing electrons detected in the End Calorimeters greatly reduce the measurement systematic uncertainty, especially the on related to the parton distribution functions. We describe a precise calibration of the End Calorimeter using Z → ee events corresponding to 4.3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The calibration is an important milestone in a measurement that explores a larger part of the D0 Calorimeter. We present parametrized models that describe the response of the End Calorimeters to electron showers and soft hadronic particles, giving special attention to the specific challenges of a measurement in the forward region: the inhomogeneity of the uninstrumented materials, the large hadronic energy flow in the calorimeter and the jet misidentification probability.
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Download or read book Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present a direct measurement of the width of the W boson using the shape of the transverse mass distribution of W → e[nu] candidates selected in 1 fb−1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV. We use the same methods and data sample that were used for our recently published W boson mass measurement, except for the modeling of the recoil, which is done with a new method based on a recoil library. Our result, 2.028 ± 0.072 GeV, is in agreement with the predictions of the standard model and is the most precise direct measurement result from a single experiment to date.
