26 Nov 2024
Seminars and colloquia
Time
Venue
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Speaker(s)
Dr Josh Bendavid, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Abstract
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->mu nu decays, yielding one of the most precise measurements of the W mass to date.