Determination of the mass of the W boson using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abolins, M
Acharya, BS
Adam, I
Adams, DL
Adams, M
Ahn, S
Aihara, H
Alves, GA
Amidi, E
Amos, N
Anderson, EW
Astur, R
Baarmand, MM
Baden, A
Balamurali, V
Balderston, J
Baldin, B
Banerjee, S
Bantly, J
Barberis, E
Bartlett, JF
Bazizi, K
Belyaev, A
Beri, SB
Bertram, I
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
Bhattacharjee, M
Biswas, N
Blazey, G
Blessing, S
Bloom, P
Boehnlein, A
Bojko, NI
Borcherding, F
Boswell, C
Brandt, A
Brock, R
Bross, A
Buchholz, D
Burtovoi, VS
Butler, JM
Carvalho, W
Casey, D
Casilum, Z
Castilla-Valdez, H
Chakraborty, D
Chang, SM
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[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[3] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[4] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[5] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[6] Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[7] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[8] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[9] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[10] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[11] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[12] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[13] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[14] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[15] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[16] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[17] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[18] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[19] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[20] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[21] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[22] Kyungsung Univ, Pusan 608736, South Korea
[23] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[24] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[25] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[26] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[27] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[28] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[29] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[30] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[31] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[32] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[33] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[34] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[35] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[36] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[37] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[38] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142284, Russia
[39] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[40] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[41] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[42] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[43] CE SACLAy, CEA, DAPNIA, Serv Phys Particules, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[44] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[45] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[46] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Colaba 400005, Mumbai, India
[47] Univ Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[48] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevD.58.012002
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摘要
A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented which is based on a sample of 5982 W --> e nu decays observed in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV with the D0 detector during the 1992-1983 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 +/- 0.140(stat) +/- 0.165(syst) +/- 0.160(scale) GeV/c(2). Detailed discussions of the determination of the absolute energy scale, the measured efficiencies, and all systematic uncertainties are presented. [S0556-2821(98)01613-0].
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