2008/08/02 by Emily Laura Nurse, Emily Nurse, Nurse, Emily
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Asymmetry #Boson #Charge (physics) #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Electroweak interaction #FOS: Physical sciences #Hadron #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Rapidity #Tevatron #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0808.0218
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · Invited talk at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP2008), Galena, Illinois, USA, May 27-31, 2008; 8 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps figures
arxiv created 2008/08/02 · openalex publication_date 2008/08/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
I present measurements of W and Z boson properties by the CDF and D0 collaborations. This includes measurements that test the production mechanism of the bosons and precision measurements of electroweak parameters. In the former category I present CDF measurements of the Z rapidity and W charge asymmetry that will help further constrain Parton Distribution Functions in future global fits, and a D0 measurement of the Z transverse momentum distribution that can be used to test the predictions of quantum-chromodynamics. In the later category I present a D0 measurement of the Z/gamma* forward-backward asymmetry and the subsequent extraction sin2thetaW = 0.2327 +/- 0.0018 (stat.) +/- 0.0006 (syst.) and a CDF measurement of the W width GammaW using a fit to the tail of the W transverse mass distribution in W->enu and W->munu events that yields GammaW = 2032 +/- 73 MeV.