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THE W BOSON MASS MEASUREMENT USING THE COLLIDER DETECTOR AT FERMILAB

YU ZENG

Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA

Also at CGG, Houston, TX 77072.

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X13300184Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

As one of the most important parameters in the Standard Model (SM), the mass of the W boson (m_W) is currently the limiting factor in our ability to tighten the constraint on the mass of the Higgs boson (m_H) within the SM framework. This review summarizes the world's most precise m_W measurement to date using ~2.2 fb^-1 data collected in collisions at with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. This review will first describe the motivation for improving the precision of m_W measurement, then present the details of this analysis, followed by the final measurement result and the future perspective.

The Collider Detector at Fermilab is also known as CDF.

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PACS: 13.38.Be, 14.70.Fm, 12.15.Ji, 13.85.Qk

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