Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the ATLAS Detector
Author | : Oleh Kivernyk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:993012401 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the ATLAS Detector written by Oleh Kivernyk and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes a measurement of the W boson mass with the ATLAS detector based on the data-set recorded by ATLAS in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, and corresponding to 4.6 inverse femtobarn of integrated luminosity. Measurements are performed through template fits to the transverse momentum distributions of charged leptons and to transverse mass distributions of the W boson, in electron and muon decay modes in various kinematic categories. The individual measurements are found to be consistent and their combination leads to a value of m_W = 80371.1 ± 18.6 MeV. The measured value of the W boson mass is compatible with the current world average of m_W = 80385 ± 15 MeV. The uncertainty is competitive with the current most precise measurements performed by the CDF and D0 collaborations.