Measurement of the W boson mass using large rapidity electrons Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the D experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994-1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to ev final states where the electron is detected in a forward calorimeter. We extract the W boson mass MW by fitting the transverse mass and transverse electron and neutrino momentum spectra from a sample of 11 089 Wev decay candidates. We use a sample of 1687 dielectron events, mostly due to Zee decays, to constrain our model of the detector response. Using the forward calorimeter data, we measure MW=80.6910.227 GeV. Combining the forward calorimeter measurements with our previously published central calorimeter results, we obtain MW=80.482 0.091 GeV. 2000 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

author list (cited authors)

  • Abbott, B., Abolins, M., Abramov, V., Acharya, B. S., Adam, I., Adams, D. L., ... Zylberstejn, A.

citation count

  • 29

complete list of authors

  • Abbott, B||Abolins, M||Abramov, V||Acharya, BS||Adam, I||Adams, DL||Adams, M||Ahn, S||Akimov, V||Alves, GA||Amos, N||Anderson, EW||Baarmand, MM||Babintsev, VV||Babukhadia, L||Baden, A||Baldin, B||Banerjee, S||Bantly, J||Barberis, E||Baringer, P||Bartlett, JF||Belyaev, A||Beri, SB||Bertram, I||Bezzubov, VA||Bhat, PC||Bhatnagar, V||Bhattacharjee, M||Blazey, G||Blessing, S||Bloom, P||Boehnlein, A||Bojko, NI||Borcherding, F||Boswell, C||Brandt, A||Breedon, R||Briskin, G||Brock, R||Bross, A||Buchholz, D||Burtovoi, VS||Butler, JM||Carvalho, W||Casey, D||Casilum, Z||Castilla-Valdez, H||Chakraborty, D||Chan, KM||Chekulaev, SV||Chen, W||Cho, DK||Choi, S||Chopra, S||Choudhary, BC||Christenson, JH||Chung, M||Claes, D||Clark, AR||Cobau, WG||Cochran, J||Coney, L||Cooper, WE||Coppage, D||Cretsinger, C||Cullen-Vidal, D||Cummings, MAC||Cutts, D||Dahl, OI||Davis, K||De, K||Del Signore, K||Demarteau, M||Denisov, D||Denisov, SP||Diehl, HT||Diesburg, M||Di Loreto, G||Draper, P||Ducros, Y||Dudko, LV||Dugad, SR||Dyshkant, A||Edmunds, D||Ellison, J||Elvira, VD||Engelmann, R||Eno, S||Eppley, G||Ermolov, P||Eroshin, OV||Estrada, J||Evans, H||Evdokimov, VN||Fahland, T||Fatyga, MK||Feher, S||Fein, D||Ferbel, T||Fisk, HE||Fisyak, Y||Flattum, E||Forden, GE||Fortner, M||Frame, KC||Fuess, S||Gallas, E||Galyaev, AN||Gartung, P||Gavrilov, V||Geld, TL||Genik, RJ||Genser, K||Gerber, CE||Gershtein, Y||Gibbard, B||Ginther, G||Gobbi, B||Gomez, B||Gomez, G||Goncharov, PI||Solis, JLG||Gordon, H||Goss, LT||Gounder, K||Goussiou, A||Graf, N||Grannis, PD||Green, DR||Green, JA||Greenlee, H||Grinstein, S||Grudberg, P||Grunendahl, S||Guglielmo, G||Guida, JA||Guida, JM||Gupta, A||Gurzhiev, SN||Gutierrez, G||Gutierrez, P||Hadley, NJ||Haggerty, H||Hagopian, S||Hagopian, V||Hahn, KS||Hall, RE||Hanlet, P||Hansen, S||Hauptman, JM||Hays, C||Hebert, C||Hedin, D||Heinson, AP||Heintz, U||Hernandez-Montoya, R||Heuring, T||Hirosky, R||Hobbs, JD||Hoeneisen, B||Hoftun, JS||Hsieh, F||Hu, T||Ito, AS||Jerger, SA||Jesik, R||Joffe-Minor, T||Johns, K||Johnson, M||Jonckheere, A||Jones, M||Jostlein, H||Jun, SY||Kahn, S||Karmanov, D||Karmgard, D||Kehoe, R||Kim, SK||Klima, B||Klopfenstein, C||Knuteson, B||Ko, W||Kohli, JM||Koltick, D||Kostritskiy, AV||Kotcher, J||Kotwal, AV||Kozelov, AV||Kozlovsky, EA||Krane, J||Krishnaswamy, MR||Krzywdzinski, S||Kubantsev, M||Kuleshov, S||Kulik, Y||Kunori, S||Landry, F||Landsberg, G||Leflat, A||Li, J||Li, QZ||Lima, JGR||Lincoln, D||Linn, SL||Linnemann, J||Lipton, R||Lu, JG||Lucotte, A||Lueking, L||Maciel, AKA||Madaras, RJ||Madden, R||Magana-Mendoza, L||Manankov, V||Mani, S||Mao, HS||Markeloff, R||Marshall, T||Martin, MI||Martin, RD||Mauritz, KM||May, B||Mayorov, AA||McCarthy, R||McDonald, J||McKibben, T||McKinley, J||McMahon, T||Melanson, HL||Merkin, M||Merritt, KW||Miao, C||Miettinen, H||Mincer, A||Mishra, CS||Mokhov, N||Mondal, NK||Montgomery, HE||Mostafa, M||da Motta, H||Nang, F||Narain, M||Narasimham, VS||Narayanan, A||Neal, HA||Negret, JP||Nemethy, P||Norman, D||Oesch, L||Oguri, V||Oshima, N||Owen, D||Padley, P||Para, A||Parashar, N||Park, YM||Partridge, R||Parua, N||Paterno, M||Pawlik, B||Perkins, J||Peters, M||Piegaia, R||Piekarz, H||Pischalnikov, Y||Pope, BG||Prosper, HB||Protopopescu, S||Qian, J||Quintas, PZ||Rajagopalan, S||Ramirez, O||Reay, NW||Reucroft, S||Rijssenbeek, M||Rockwell, T||Roco, M||Rubinov, P||Ruchti, R||Rutherfoord, J||Sanchez-Hernandez, A||Santoro, A||Sawyer, L||Schamberger, RD||Schellman, H||Sculli, J||Shabalina, E||Shaffer, C||Shankar, HC||Shivpuri, RK||Shpakov, D||Shupe, M||Sidwell, RA||Singh, H||Singh, JB||Sirotenko, V||Slattery, P||Smith, E||Smith, RP||Snihur, R||Snow, GR||Snow, J||Snyder, S||Solomon, J||Song, XF||Sosebee, M||Sotnikova, N||Souza, M||Stanton, NR||Steinbruck, G||Stephens, RW||Stevenson, ML||Stichelbaut, F||Stoker, D||Stolin, V||Stoyanova, DA||Strauss, M||Streets, K||Strovink, M||Sznajder, A||Tamburello, P||Tarazi, J||Tartaglia, M||Thomas, TLT||Thompson, J||Toback, D||Trippe, TG||Tuts, PM||Vaniev, V||Varelas, N||Varnes, EW||Volkov, AA||Vorobiev, AP||Wahl, HD||Warchol, J||Watts, G||Wayne, M||Weerts, H||White, A||White, JT||Wightman, JA||Willis, S||Wimpenny, SJ||Wirjawan, JVD||Womersley, J||Wood, DR||Yamada, R||Yamin, P||Yasuda, T||Yepes, P||Yip, K||Yoshikawa, C||Youssef, S||Yu, J||Yu, Y||Zanabria, M||Zhou, Z||Zhu, ZH||Zielinski, M||Zieminska, D||Zieminski, A||Zutshi, V||Zverev, EG||Zylberstejn, A

publication date

  • October 2000