Direct measurement of the W boson width in p&pmacr; collisions at radicals = 1.8 TeV. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This Letter describes a direct measurement of the W boson total decay width, gamma(W), using the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The measurement uses an integrated luminosity of 90 pb(-1), collected during the 1994-1995 run of the Fermilab Tevatron p&pmacr; collider. The width is determined by normalizing predicted signal and background distributions to 49 844 W-->enu candidates and 21 806 W-->&mgr;nu candidates in the transverse-mass region M(T)<200 GeV and then fitting the predicted shape to the 438 electron events and 196 muon events in the high- M(T) region, 100

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Theriot, D., Thurman-Keup, R., Tipton, P., Tkaczyk, S., Tollefson, K., Tollestrup, A., ... Wang, C.

citation count

  • 22

complete list of authors

  • Theriot, D||Thurman-Keup, R||Tipton, P||Tkaczyk, S||Tollefson, K||Tollestrup, A||Toyoda, H||Trischuk, W||Tseng, J||Turini, N||Ukegawa, F||Vaiciulis, T||Valls, J||Vejcik, S||Velev, G||Vidal, R||Vilar, R||Volobouev, I||Vucinic, D||Wagner, RG||Wagner, RL||Wahl, J||Wallace, NB||Walsh, AM||Wang, C

publication date

  • October 2000