## Measurement of the W mass in $e^+ e^-$ collisions at 183 GeV

### Abstract

The mass of the W boson is obtained from reconstructed invariant mass distributions in W-pair events. The sample of W pairs is selected from 57 pb$^{-1}$ collected with the ALEPH detector in 1997 at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. The invariant mass distributions of reweighted Monte Carlo events are fitted separately to the experimental distributions in the $qqbarqqbar$ and all $l\nuqqbar$ channels to give the following W masses: $m_{W}^{hadronic} = 80.461 \pm 0.177(stat.) \pm 0.045(syst.) \pm 0.056(theory) GeV/c^2$, $m_{W}^{semileptonic} = 80.326 \pm 0.184(stat.) \pm 0.040(syst.) GeV/c^2$ where the theory error represents the possible effects of final state interactions. The combination of these two measurements, including the LEP energy calibration uncertainty, gives \$m_{W} = 80.393 \pm 0.128(stat.)\pm 0.041(syst.) \pm 0.028(theory)\pm 0.021(LEP) GeV/c^2

Topics: [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]
Publisher: 'Elsevier BV'
Year: 1999
OAI identifier: oai:HAL:in2p3-00011569v1

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