Combination of CDF and D0 results on the W boson mass and width
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 70:9 (2004)
Authors:
VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, D Acosta, DL Adams, M Adams, T Affolder, SN Ahmed, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, GD Alexeev, A Alton, GA Alves, P Amaral, D Ambrose, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, Y Arnoud, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, C Avila, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, TC Bacon, A Baden, W Badgett, S Baffioni, MW Bailey, S Bailey, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, G Bauer, A Bean, F Beaudette, F Bedeschi, S Behari, M Begel, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belyaev, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, J Berryhill, A Besson, R Beuselinck, B Bevensee, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko
Abstract:
The results based on 1992-95 data (Run 1) from the CDF and D0 experiments on the measurements of the W boson mass and width are presented, along with the combined results. We report a Tevatron collider average MW = 80.456 ± 0.059 GeV. We also report the Tevatron collider average of the directly measured W boson width TW = 2.115 ± 0.105 GeV. We describe a new joint analysis of the direct W mass and width measurements. Assuming the validity of the standard model, we combine the directly measured W boson width with the width extracted from the ratio of W and Z boson leptonic partial cross sections. This combined result for the Tevatron is TW = 2.135 ± 0.050 GeV. Finally, we use the measurements of the direct total W width and the leptonic branching ratio to extract the leptonic partial width Γ(W → eν) = 224 ± 13 MeV.
