Effect of flavor-dependent partonic transverse momentum on the determination of the $W$ boson mass in hadronic collisions

Abstract

Within the framework of transverse-momentum-dependent factorization, we investigate for the first time the impact of a flavor-dependent intrinsic transverse momentum of quarks on the production of $W^{\pm }$ bosons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV. We estimate the shift in the extracted value of the $W$ boson mass $M_W$ induced by different choices of flavor-dependent parameters for the intrinsic quark transverse momentum by means of a template fit to the transverse-mass and the lepton transverse-momentum distributions of the $W$-decay products. We obtain $-6\le \Delta M_{W^{+}}\le 9$ MeV and $-4\le \Delta M_{W^{-}}\le 3$ MeV with a statistical uncertainty of $\pm 2.5$ MeV. Our findings call for more detailed investigations of flavor-dependent nonperturbative effects linked to the proton structure at hadron colliders.

arXiv comment5 pages, 2 tables; revised version with new results with more statistics, more comments, conclusions unchanged, added one reference

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