8 research outputs found
Measurement of the W mass in e+ e- collisions at production threshold
In June 1996, the LEP centre-of-mass energy was raised to 161 GeV. Pair production of W bosons in e+eâ collisions was observed for the first time by the LEP experiments. An integrated luminosity of 11 pbâ1 was recorded in the ALEPH detector, in which WW candidate events were observed. In 6 events both Ws decay leptonically. In 16 events, one W decays leptonically, the other into hadrons. In the channel where both Ws decay into hadrons, a signal was separated from the large background by means of several multi-variate analyses. The W pair cross-section is measured to be ÏWW = 4.23 ± 0.73 (stat.) ± 0.19 (syst.) pb. From this cross-section, the W mass is derived within the framework of the Standard Model: mW = 80.14 ± 0.34 (stat.) ± 0.09 (syst.) ± 0.03 (LEP energy) GeV/c
Measurement of the top quark mass in all-jet events
We describe a measurement of the mass of the top quark from the purely hadronic decay modes of pairs using all-jet data produced in collisions at at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The data, which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 110.2±5.8 pb?1, were collected with the Dà detector from 1992 to 1996. We find a top quark mass of 178.5±13.7(stat)±7.7(syst) GeV/c2.<br/