Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-05-14
Eur.Phys.J.C57:627-651,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0774-4
We present a study of the LHC sensitivity to the W boson mass based on simulation studies. We find that both experimental and phenomenological sources of systematic uncertainties can be strongly constrained with Z measurements: the lineshape is robustly predicted, and its analysis provides an accurate measurement of the detector resolution and absolute scale, while the differential cross-section analysis absorbs most of the strong interaction uncertainties. A sensitivity $\delta Mw \sim 7 \MeV$ for each decay channel (W --> e nu, W --> mu nu), and for an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1, appears as a reasonable goal.
Besson N.
Boonekamp Maarten
for the ATLAS Collaboration
Klinkby E.
Mehlhase S.
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