A measurement of the mass of the W vector boson from antiproton proton going to charged W boson going to muon muon neutrino at 1.8 TeV
Keup, Randy Michael
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Title
A measurement of the mass of the W vector boson from antiproton proton going to charged W boson going to muon muon neutrino at 1.8 TeV
Author(s)
Keup, Randy Michael
Issue Date
1995
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Liss, Tony M.
Department of Study
Physics
Discipline
Physics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy
Language
eng
Abstract
This thesis presents a measurement of the mass of the W boson using data collected during the 1992-93 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron with the CDF detector. A fit to the transverse mass spectrum of a sample of 3268 $\rm W\to\mu\nu$ events from 19.7 $\rm pb\sp{-1}$ of data yields a mass of $M\sbsp{W}{\mu} = 80.310 \pm 0.205$ (stat.) $\pm$ 0.120 (syst.) $\pm$ 0.050 (scale). This result is compared to previous measurements and current predictions.
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