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Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol. 78, No. 2, 110, 06.02.2018.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2018, 'Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector', European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, vol. 78, no. 2, 110. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4

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The ATLAS collaboration (2018). Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 78(2), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4

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The ATLAS collaboration. Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2018 Feb 6;78(2):110. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5475-4

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2018 ; Vol. 78, No. 2.

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abstract = "A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented based on proton–proton collision data recorded in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and corresponding to 4.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The selected data sample consists of 7.8×10 6 candidates in the W→μν channel and 5.9×10 6 candidates in the W→eν channel. The W-boson mass is obtained from template fits to the reconstructed distributions of the charged lepton transverse momentum and of the W boson transverse mass in the electron and muon decay channels, yieldingmW=80370±7 (stat.)±11(exp. syst.) ±14 (mod. syst.) MeV =80370±19 MeV,where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second corresponds to the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third to the physics-modelling systematic uncertainty. A measurement of the mass difference between the W+ and W− bosons yields mW+−mW−=−29±28 MeV.",
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AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Muenstermann, Daniel Matthias Alfred

AU - Parker, Adam Jackson

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James William

AU - Wharton, Andy

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

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AB - A measurement of the mass of the W boson is presented based on proton–proton collision data recorded in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and corresponding to 4.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The selected data sample consists of 7.8×10 6 candidates in the W→μν channel and 5.9×10 6 candidates in the W→eν channel. The W-boson mass is obtained from template fits to the reconstructed distributions of the charged lepton transverse momentum and of the W boson transverse mass in the electron and muon decay channels, yieldingmW=80370±7 (stat.)±11(exp. syst.) ±14 (mod. syst.) MeV =80370±19 MeV,where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second corresponds to the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third to the physics-modelling systematic uncertainty. A measurement of the mass difference between the W+ and W− bosons yields mW+−mW−=−29±28 MeV.

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