Measurement of the W mass and width in e^+e^- collisions at 189 GeV |
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Authors: | R Barate |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Physique des Particules (LAPP), IN2P3-CNRS, 74019 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France , FR |
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Abstract: | The mass of the W boson is determined in ee collisions at LEP by the direct reconstruction of W decays in and events, supplemented by measurements using the kinematic properties of the leptons in the
decay channel. The main sample of W pairs is selected from an integrated luminosity of 174 pb collected with the ALEPH detector in 1998 at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.63 GeV. The combined result from all channels
is
where FSI represents the possible effects of final state interactions in the channel. In a second two-parameter fit to the , and channels, where the W mass and width are decoupled, the average W width is found to be { GeV/}, consistent with the Standard Model prediction. The combination of the mass measurement presented in this paper together
with those derived previously from the W pair cross section at 161 and 172 GeV and direct reconstruction at 172 and 183 GeV
gives
Received: 15 March 2000 / Published online: 8 September 2000 |
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