Phys. Rev. D 62, 092006 (2000) [33 pages]

Measurement of the W boson mass using large rapidity electrons

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B. Abbott et al. (DØ Collaboration)
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Received 23 August 1999; published 12 October 2000

We present a measurement of the W boson mass using data collected by the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during 1994–1995. We identify W bosons by their decays to eν final states where the electron is detected in a forward calorimeter. We extract the W boson mass MW by fitting the transverse mass and transverse electron and neutrino momentum spectra from a sample of 11 089 Weν decay candidates. We use a sample of 1687 dielectron events, mostly due to Zee decays, to constrain our model of the detector response. Using the forward calorimeter data, we measure MW=80.691±0.227 GeV. Combining the forward calorimeter measurements with our previously published central calorimeter results, we obtain MW=80.482±0.091 GeV.


©2000 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.092006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.092006
PACS: 14.70.Fm, 12.15.Ji, 13.38.Be, 13.85.Qk

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