Measurement of the W boson mass using electrons at large rapidities

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 Boehnlein, A Bojko, NI Borcherding, F 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 Connolly, B Cooper, WE Coppage, D 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, B Ferbel, T Fisk, HE Fisyak, Y Flattum, E Fortner, M Frame, KC Fuess, S Gallas, E Galyaev, AN Gartung, P Gavrilov, V Genik, RJ Genser, K Gerber, CE Gershtein, Y Gibbard, P Gilmartin, R Ginther, G Gobbi, B Gomez, B Gomez, G Goncharov, PI Solis, JLG Gordon, P 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, A Hadley, NJ Haggerty, H Hagopian, S Hagopian, V Hahn, HS 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 Ito, AS Jerger, SA Jesik, R Joffe-Minor, T Johns, K Johnson, M Jonckheere, A Jones, M Jostlein, H Jun, SY Kahn, S Kajfasz, E 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 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, P Narasimham, VS Neal, HA Negret, JP Norman, D Oesch, L Oguri, V Oshima, N Owen, D Padley, P Para, A Parashar, N Park, YM Partridge, R Parua, N Paterno, M Patwa, A 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, A 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, P 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 Stutte, L Sznajder, A Tamburello, P Tarazi, J Tartaglia, M Thomas, TLT Thompson, J Toback, D Trippe, TG Turcot, AS Tuts, PM van Gemmeren, P Vaniev, V Varelas, N 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 Yip, K Youssef, S Yu, J Yu, Y Zanabria, M Zhou, Z Zhu, ZH Zielinski, M Zieminska, D Zieminski, A Zutshi, V Zverev, EG Zylberstejn, A
Citation
B. Abbott et al., Measurement of the W boson mass using electrons at large rapidities, PHYS REV L, 84(2), 2000, pp. 222-227
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
84
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
222 - 227
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20000110)84:2<222:MOTWBM>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We report a measurement of the W boson mass based on an integrated luminosi ty of 82 pb(-1) from <p(p)over bar> collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV recorded in 1994-1995 by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We identify W bo sons by their decays to ev, where the electron is detected in the forward c alorimeters. We extract the mass by fitting the transverse mass and the ele ctron and neutrino transverse momentum spectra of 11 089 W boson candidates . We measure M-w = 80.691 +/- 0.227 GeV. By combining this measurement with our previously published central calorimeter results from data taken in 19 92-1993 and 1994-1995, we obtain M-w = 80.482 +/- 0.091 GeV.