{
  "id": "hep-ex/9712029",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1997-12-22T23:46:00.000Z",
  "updated": "1997-12-22T23:46:00.000Z",
  "title": "A Measurement of the W Boson Mass",
  "authors": [
    "B. Abbott",
    "M. Abolins",
    "B. S. Acharya",
    "et. al"
  ],
  "comment": "49 pages, 77 figures",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D58:092003,1998",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.58.092003",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994--1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to $e\\nu$ final states. We extract the W mass, M(W), by fitting the transverse mass and transverse electron momentum spectra from a sample of 28,323 W to $e\\nu$ decay candidates. We use a sample of 3,563 dielectron events, mostly due to Z to ee decays, to constrain our model of the detector response. From the transverse mass fit we measure M(W) = $80.44\\pm0.10(stat)\\pm0.07(syst)$ GeV. Combining this with our previously published result from data taken in 1992--1993, we obtain M(W) $= 80.43\\pm0.11$ GeV.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1997-12-22T23:46:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "boson mass",
      "measurement",
      "transverse electron momentum spectra",
      "transverse mass fit",
      "final states"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 49,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 452733
    }
  }
}