Phys. Rev. D
62,
092006
(2000)
[33 pages]
Measurement of the W boson mass using large rapidity electrons
B. Abbott et al. (DØ Collaboration)
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B. Abbott45, M. Abolins42, V. Abramov18, B. S. Acharya11, I. Adam44, D. L. Adams54, M. Adams28, S. Ahn27, V. Akimov16, G. A. Alves2, N. Amos41, E. W. Anderson34, M. M. Baarmand47, V. V. Babintsev18, L. Babukhadia20, A. Baden38, B. Baldin27, S. Banerjee11, J. Bantly51, E. Barberis21, P. Baringer35, J. F. Bartlett27, A. Belyaev17, S. B. Beri9, I. Bertram19, V. A. Bezzubov18, P. C. Bhat27, V. Bhatnagar9, M. Bhattacharjee47, G. Blazey29, S. Blessing25, P. Bloom22, A. Boehnlein27, N. I. Bojko18, F. Borcherding27, C. Boswell24, A. Brandt27, R. Breedon22, G. Briskin51, R. Brock42, A. Bross27, D. Buchholz30, V. S. Burtovoi18, J. M. Butler39, W. Carvalho3, D. Casey42, Z. Casilum47, H. Castilla-Valdez14, D. Chakraborty47, K. M. Chan46, S. V. Chekulaev18, W. Chen47, D. K. Cho46, S. Choi13, S. Chopra25, B. C. Choudhary24, J. H. Christenson27, M. Chung28, D. Claes43, A. R. Clark21, W. G. Cobau38, J. Cochran24, L. Coney32, W. E. Cooper27, D. Coppage35, C. Cretsinger46, D. Cullen-Vidal51, M. A. C. Cummings29, D. Cutts51, O. I. Dahl21, K. Davis20, K. De52, K. Del Signore41, M. Demarteau27, D. Denisov27, S. P. Denisov18, H. T. Diehl27, M. Diesburg27, G. Di Loreto42, P. Draper52, Y. Ducros8, L. V. Dudko17, S. R. Dugad11, A. Dyshkant18, D. Edmunds42, J. Ellison24, V. D. Elvira47, R. Engelmann47, S. Eno38, G. Eppley54, P. Ermolov17, O. V. Eroshin18, J. Estrada46, H. Evans44, V. N. Evdokimov18, T. Fahland23, M. K. Fatyga46, S. Feher27, D. Fein20, T. Ferbel46, H. E. Fisk27, Y. Fisyak48, E. Flattum27, G. E. Forden20, M. Fortner29, K. C. Frame42, S. Fuess27, E. Gallas27, A. N. Galyaev18, P. Gartung24, V. Gavrilov16, T. L. Geld42, R. J. Genik, II42, K. Genser27, C. E. Gerber27, Y. Gershtein51, B. Gibbard48, G. Ginther46, B. Gobbi30, B. Gómez5, G. Gómez38, P. I. Goncharov18, J. L. González Solís14, H. Gordon48, L. T. Goss53, K. Gounder24, A. Goussiou47, N. Graf48, P. D. Grannis47, D. R. Green27, J. A. Green34, H. Greenlee27, S. Grinstein1, P. Grudberg21, S. Grünendahl27, G. 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Wayne32, H. Weerts42, A. White52, J. T. White53, J. A. Wightman34, S. Willis29, S. J. Wimpenny24, J. V. D. Wirjawan53, J. Womersley27, D. R. Wood40, R. Yamada27, P. Yamin48, T. Yasuda27, P. Yepes54, K. Yip27, C. Yoshikawa26, S. Youssef25, J. Yu27, Y. Yu13, M. Zanabria5, Z. Zhou34, Z. H. Zhu46, M. Zielinski46, D. Zieminska31, A. Zieminski31, V. Zutshi46, E. G. Zverev17, and A. Zylberstejn8 (DØ Collaboration)
1Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2LAFEX, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
5Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
6Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
7Institut des Sciences Nucléaires, IN2P3-CNRS, Universite de Grenoble 1, Grenoble, France
8DAPNIA/Service de Physique des Particules, CEA, Saclay, France
9Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
10Delhi University, Delhi, India
11Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
12Kyungsung University, Pusan, Korea
13Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
14CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico
15Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków, Poland
16Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
17Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
18Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
19Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
20University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
21Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
22University of California, Davis, California 95616
23University of California, Irvine, California 92697
24University of California, Riverside, California 92521
25Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
26University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
27Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
28University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
29Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115
30Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
31Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
32University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
33Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
34Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
35University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
36Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
37Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272
38University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
39Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
40Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
41University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
42Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
43University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
44Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
45New York University, New York, New York 10003
46University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
47State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
48Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
49Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma 73050
50University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
51Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
52University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019
53Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
54Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
Received 23 August 1999; published 12 October 2000
We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994–1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to eν final states where the electron is detected in a forward calorimeter. We extract the W boson mass MW by fitting the transverse mass and transverse electron and neutrino momentum spectra from a sample of 11 089 W⃗eν decay candidates. We use a sample of 1687 dielectron events, mostly due to Z⃗ee decays, to constrain our model of the detector response. Using the forward calorimeter data, we measure MW=80.691±0.227 GeV. Combining the forward calorimeter measurements with our previously published central calorimeter results, we obtain MW=80.482±0.091 GeV.
© 2000 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.092006
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.092006
PACS:
14.70.Fm, 12.15.Ji, 13.38.Be, 13.85.Qk
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