{ "id": "hep-ex/9607011", "version": "v1", "published": "1996-07-15T19:32:32.000Z", "updated": "1996-07-15T19:32:32.000Z", "title": "Measurement of the $W$ Boson Mass", "authors": [ "Marcel Demarteau" ], "comment": "12 pages, LaTex, style Revtex, including 3 postscript figures (submitted to PRL)", "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett.77:3309-3314,1996", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3309", "categories": [ "hep-ex" ], "abstract": "A measurement of the mass of the $W$ boson is presented based on a sample of 5982 $W \\rightarrow e \\nu$ decays observed in $p\\overline{p}$ collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 1.8~TeV with the D\\O\\ detector during the 1992--1993 run. From a fit to the transverse mass spectrum, combined with measurements of the $Z$ boson mass, the $W$ boson mass is measured to be $M_W = 80.350 \\pm 0.140 (stat.) \\pm 0.165 (syst.) \\pm 0.160 (scale) GeV/c^2$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1996-07-15T19:32:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "boson mass", "measurement", "transverse mass spectrum" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett." }, "note": { "typesetting": "RevTeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 420770 } } }