Electroweak physics and Z/W boson measurements at LHCb

27 Aug 2021, 16:00
20m
ZR2

ZR2

Electroweak, Top quark, and Higgs Physics Electroweak, Top quark, and Higgs Physics

Speaker

Miguel Ramos Pernas (University of Warwick (GB))

Description

The LHCb experiment covers the forward region of proton-proton collisions, and it can improve the current electroweak landscape by studying the production of W and Z boson in this phase space complementary to ATLAS and CMS. In this talk an overview of the wide LHCb electroweak measurement program will be presented. Several preliminary studies have shown the potential of the LHCb experiment to measure the W boson mass with a muon pT based technique, which could yield a statistical precision of 10 MeV if using the full Run 2 dataset.
A proof-of-concept measurement of the W boson mass, using only the 2016 dataset, will be presented, together with a measurement of the angular coefficients of Z boson decays.

Authors

LHCb Collaboration Miguel Ramos Pernas (University of Warwick (GB))

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