Improved W boson mass measurement with the D0 detector

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2002-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0204014v1

Phys.Rev.D66:012001,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

submitted to Phys. Rev. D; 20 pages, 18 figures, 9 tables

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.012001

We have measured the W boson mass using the D0 detector and a data sample of 82 pb^-1 from the Tevatron collider. This measurement used W -> e nu decays, where the electron is close to a boundary of a central electromagnetic calorimeter module. Such 'edge' electrons have not been used in any previous D0 analysis, and represent a 14% increase in the W boson sample size. For these electrons, new response and resolution parameters are determined, and revised backgrounds and underlying event energy flow measurements are made. When the current measurement is combined with previous D0 W boson mass measurements, we obtain M_W = 80.483 +/- 0.084 GeV. The 8% improvement from the previous D0 measurement is primarily due to the improved determination of the response parameters for non-edge electrons using the sample of Z bosons with non-edge and edge electrons.

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