Measurement of the $W$-boson mass in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

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 $7.8\times 10^6$ candidates in the $W\to \mu \nu$ channel and $5.9\times 10^6$ candidates in the $W\to e\nu$ 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, yielding \begin{eqnarray} m_W &=& 80370 \pm 7 \, (\textrm{stat.}) \pm 11 \, (\textrm{exp. syst.}) \pm 14 \, (\textrm{mod. syst.}) \, \textrm{MeV} &=& 80370 \pm 19 \, \textrm{MeV}, \end{eqnarray} 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 $m_{W^{+}}-m_{W^{-}}=-29\pm 28$ MeV.

87 pages in total, author list starting page 71, 30 figures, 13 tables, published in EPJC, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2014-18 . This version includes modifications described in the erratum that can be found at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6354-3

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