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Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Measurement of the $W$ mass and width in $e^+ e... ### Text available via DOI: ## Measurement of the$W$mass and width in$e^+ e^-$collisions at 189-GeV Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article Published Journal publication date 10/2000 European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 2 17 21 241-261 English ### Abstract The mass of the W boson is determined in e + e − collisions at LEP by the direct reconstruction of W decays in WW→qq¯qq¯ and WW→ℓνqq¯ events, supplemented by measurements using the kinematic properties of the leptons in the \mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}\rightarrow\mbox{\ell\nu }\mbox{$\ell\nu \$} decay channel. The main sample of W pairs is selected from an integrated luminosity of 174 pb −1 collected with the ALEPH detector in 1998 at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.63 GeV. The combined result from all channels is
mW=80.432±0.072(stat.)±0.041(syst.)±0.019(FSI)±0.017(LEP)GeV/c2,
where FSI represents the possible effects of final state interactions in the qq¯qq¯ channel. In a second two-parameter fit to the qq¯qq¯ , \mathrmeνqq¯ and μνqq¯ channels, where the W mass and width are decoupled, the average W width is found to be { 2.24±0.20(stat.)±0.13(syst.) GeV/ c2 }, consistent with the Standard Model prediction. The combination of the mass measurement presented in this paper together with those derived previously from the W pair cross section at 161 and 172 GeV and direct reconstruction at 172 and 183 GeV gives
mW=80.418±0.061(stat.)±0.040(syst.)±0.019(FSI)±0.017(LEP)GeV/c2.