W mass measurement with muons at SQRT.S. = 1.8 TeV
Schlabach, Philip
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Description
Title
W mass measurement with muons at SQRT.S. = 1.8 TeV
Author(s)
Schlabach, Philip
Issue Date
1990
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Errede, Steven 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
The mass of the W vector boson has been measured from an analysis of $W \to\ \mu\ \nu$ decays in the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar p p$ collider. The mass is 79.90 $\pm$ 0.53(stat.) $\pm$ 0.31(sys.) $\pm$ 0.16(scale) GeV/c$\sp2$. When this result is combined with previous CDF measurements, sin$\sp2\theta\sb{W}$ is determined to be 0.231 $\pm$ 0.008. These measurements place an upper bound on the mass of the unfound top quark.
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