High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS

by Elisabetta Manca (University of California Los Angeles (US))

Monday 9 Dec 2024, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

BSP 626 / Zoom

The W boson mass is measured using proton-proton collision data at corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 16.8 inverse fb recorded during 2016 by the CMS experiment. The W boson mass is obtained from a fit of the two-dimensional $p_T-\eta$ distribution in a sample of $W \rightarrow \mu \nu$ decays, categorized by charge, yielding one of the most precise measurements of the W mass to date.

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