Measurement of the W boson mass at CMS
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Measurement of the W boson mass at CMS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 31st January 2025
- Speaker: Dr. Josh Bendavid (CERN)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The W boson mass is measured using 16.8 inverse fb of proton-proton collision data at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV, recorded by the CMS experiment during LHC Run 2. The W boson mass is obtained from a fit to the three-dimensional distribution of muon transverse momentum, pseudorapidity and charge in a sample of $W\rightarrow \mu \nu$ decays, yielding one of the most precise measurements of the W mass to date.
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