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Measurement of the W mass in $e^{+}e^{-}$ collisions at production threshold

In June 1996, the LEP centre-of-mass energy was raised to 161 GeV. Pair production of W bosons in e+e- collisions was observed for the first time by the LEP experiments. An integrated luminosity of 11 pb-1 was recorded in the ALEPH detector, in which WW candidate events were observed. In 6 events bo...

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Autores principales: Barate, R, Buskulic, Damir, Décamp, D, Ghez, P, Goy, C, Lees, J P, Lucotte, A, Minard, M N, Nief, J Y, Pietrzyk, B, Casado, M P, Chmeissani, M, Comas, P, Crespo, J M, Delfino, M C, Fernández, E, Fernández-Bosman, M, Garrido, L, Juste, A, Martínez, M, Miquel, R, Mir, L M, Orteu, S, Padilla, C, Park, I C, Pascual, A, Perlas, J A, Riu, I, Sánchez, F, Teubert, F, Colaleo, A, Creanza, D, De Palma, M, Gelao, G, Iaselli, Giuseppe, Maggi, G, Maggi, M, Marinelli, N, Nuzzo, S, Ranieri, A, Raso, G, Ruggieri, F, Selvaggi, G, Silvestris, L, Tempesta, P, Tricomi, A, Zito, G, Huang, X, Lin, J, Ouyang, Q, Wang, T, Xie, Y, Xu, R, Xue, S, Zhang, J, Zhang, L, Zhao, W, Abbaneo, D, Alemany, R, Bazarko, A O, Becker, U, Bright-Thomas, P G, Cattaneo, M, Cerutti, F, Drevermann, H, Forty, Roger W, Frank, M, Hagelberg, R, Harvey, J, Janot, P, Jost, B, Kneringer, E, Knobloch, J, Lehraus, Ivan, Lutters, G, Mato, P, Minten, Adolf G, Moneta, L, Pacheco, A, Pusztaszeri, J F, Ranjard, F, Rensing, 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Lan, Wu, X, Yamartino, J M, Zobernig, G
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00460-7
http://cds.cern.ch/record/322316
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Sumario:In June 1996, the LEP centre-of-mass energy was raised to 161 GeV. Pair production of W bosons in e+e- collisions was observed for the first time by the LEP experiments. An integrated luminosity of 11 pb-1 was recorded in the ALEPH detector, in which WW candidate events were observed. In 6 events both Ws decay leptonically. In 16 events, one W decays leptonically, the other into hadrons. In the channel where both Ws decay into hadrons, a signal was separated from the large background by means of several multi-variate analyses. The W pair cross-section is measured to be sigma_WW = 4.23 +-0.73 (stat.) +- 0.19 (syst.) pb From this cross-section, the W mass is derived within the framework of the Standard Model: MW = 80.14 +- 0.34 (stat.) +- 0.09 (syst.) +- 0.03 (LEP~energy) GeV/c2.