LHCb UK Seminar: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

Thursday 23 Jun 2022, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Aidan Richard Wiederhold (University of Warwick (GB)), J Alexander Ward (University of Warwick (GB)), Niall Thomas Mchugh (University of Glasgow (GB)), Rizwaan Mohammed (University of Oxford (GB))

LHCb UK Student Seminar: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last missing component of the model. After the observation of the Higgs boson, a measurement of the W boson mass provides a stringent test of the model. We measure the W boson mass using data corresponding to 8.8 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The measured value is in tension with the prediction of the model.

CDF Collaboration Website

Virtual Speaker: Chris Hays (The University of Oxford, UK)

This session will be held in a hybrid fashion; both on ZOOM and in room 4/3-006 at CERN.

Refreshments will be provided in the seminar room.

 

Recording: CDS

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student_sessions.pdf

16:30 → 17:10 LHCb UK Seminar: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

Speaker: Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB))

LHCb.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 Q&A