REVIEW OF THE PROPERTIES OF THE W BOSON AT LEP, AND THE PRECISION DETERMINATION OF ITS MASS

2003/11/10 by Raimund Ströhmer, RAIMUND STRÖHMER
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Collider #Differential (mechanical device) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Scattering cross-section #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Systematic error #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x03015180

published as Int.J.Mod.Phys. A18 (2003) 5127-5220 · 97 pages

openalex publication_date 2003/11/10 · arxiv created 2004/01/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We review the precision measurement of the mass and couplings of the W boson at LEP. The total and differential W + W - cross section is used to extract the WWZ and WWγ couplings. We discuss the techniques used by the four LEP experiments to determine the W mass in different decay channels, and present the details of methods used to evaluate the sources of systematic uncertainty.

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