{ "id": "hep-ex/9503007", "version": "v1", "published": "1995-03-09T22:25:08.000Z", "updated": "1995-03-09T22:25:08.000Z", "title": "Measurement of the W Boson Mass", "authors": [ "The CDF Collaboration" ], "comment": "13 pages for letter, URL: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub95/cdf2928_wmass_prl_subm.ps, article submitted to PRD is apparently to long to post, see URL: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub95/cdf2975_wmass_prd_subm.ps", "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett.75:11-16,1995", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.11", "categories": [ "hep-ex" ], "abstract": "We present a measurement of the mass of the $W$ boson using data collected with the CDF detector during the 1992-93 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron. A fit to the transverse mass spectrum of a sample of 3268 {\\mbox{$W \\rightarrow \\mu\\nu$}} events recorded in an integrated luminosity of 19.7 pb$^{-1}$ gives a mass $M_{W}^{\\mu}=80.310\\pm0.205\\mbox{~(stat.)}\\pm0.130\\mbox{~(syst.)} \\ \\mbox{GeV/c}^{2}$. A fit to the transverse mass spectrum of a sample of 5718 {\\mbox{$W \\rightarrow e\\nu$}} events recorded in 18.2 pb$^{-1}$ gives a mass $M_{W}^{e}=80.490\\pm0.145\\mbox{~(stat.)}\\pm0.175\\mbox{~(syst.)} \\ \\mbox{GeV/c}^{2}$. Combining the electron and muon results, accounting for correlated uncertainties, yields a mass $M_{W}=80.410\\pm0.180 \\ \\mbox{GeV/c}^{2}$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1995-03-09T22:25:08.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "boson mass", "transverse mass spectrum", "measurement", "cdf detector", "fermilab tevatron" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 13, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 393283 } } }