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Article
Report number arXiv:0803.2534 ; CERN-PH-EP-2007-026 ; CERN-PH-EP-2007-026
Title Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson in $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 161 - 209 GeV
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Abdallah, J. (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Abreu, Pedro (LIP, Lisbon) ; Adam, W. (Vienna, OAW) ; Adzic, P. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Albrecht, T. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Alemany-Fernandez, R. (CERN) ; Allmendinger, T. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Allport, P.P. (Liverpool U.) ; Amaldi, U. (INFN, Milan Bicocca) ; Amapane, N. (INFN, Turin) ; Amato, Sandra F. (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Anashkin, E. (INFN, Padua) ; Andreazza, A. (INFN, Milan) ; Andringa, Sofia (LIP, Lisbon) ; Anjos, N. (LIP, Lisbon) ; Antilogus, Pierre (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Apel, W-D. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Arnoud, Y. (Grenoble, CEN) ; Ask, S. (CERN) ; Asman, B. (Stockholm U.) ; Augustin, Jean-Eudes (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Augustinus, A. (CERN) ; Baillon, P. (CERN) ; Ballestrero, A. (INFN, Turin) ; Bambade, P. (Orsay, LAL) ; Barbier, R. (Lyon, IPN) ; Bardin, D. (Dubna, JINR) ; Barker, G.J. (Warwick U.) ; Baroncelli, Antonio (INFN, Rome) ; Battaglia, Marco (CERN) ; Baubillier, M. (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Becks, K-H. (Wuppertal U.) ; Begalli, M. (Rio de Janeiro State U.) ; Behrmann, A. (Wuppertal U.) ; Ben-Haim, Eli (Orsay, LAL) ; Benekos, N. (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Benvenuti, A. (INFN, Bologna) ; Berat, C. (Grenoble, CEN) ; Berggren, Mikael (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Bertrand, D. (Brussels U., IIHE) ; Besancon, Marc (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Besson, N. (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Bloch, Daniel (Louis Pasteur U., Strasbourg I) ; Blom, M. (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Bluj, Michal (Cornell U., LNS) ; Bonesini, Maurizio (INFN, Milan Bicocca) ; Boonekamp, M. (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Booth, PSL (Liverpool U.) ; Borisov, G. (Lancaster U.) ; Botner, Olga (Uppsala U.) ; Bouquet, B. (Orsay, LAL) ; Bowcock, T.J.V. (Liverpool U.) ; Boyko, I. (Dubna, JINR) ; Bracko, Marko (Stefan Inst., Ljubljana) ; Brenner, R. (Uppsala U.) ; Brodet, E. (Oxford U.) ; Bruckman, P. (Cracow, INP) ; Brunet, J.M. (College de France) ; Buschbeck, B. (Vienna, OAW) ; Buschmann, P. (Wuppertal U.) ; Calvi, M. (INFN, Milan Bicocca) ; Camporesi, Tiziano (CERN) ; Canale, V. (INFN, Rome) ; Carena, F. (CERN) ; Castro, Nuno Filipe (LIP, Lisbon) ; Cavallo, F. (INFN, Bologna) ; Chapkin, M. (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Charpentier, Ph. (CERN) ; Checchia, Paolo (INFN, Padua) ; Chierici, R. (CERN) ; Chliapnikov, P. (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Chudoba, J. (CERN) ; Chung, Suh-Urk (CERN) ; Cieslik, K. (Cracow, INP) ; Collins, P. (CERN) ; Contri, Roberto (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Cosme, G. (Orsay, LAL) ; Cossutti, Fabio (INFN, Trieste) ; Costa, M.J. (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Crennell, D. (Rutherford) ; Cuevas, Javier (Oviedo U.) ; D'Hondt, J. (Brussels U., IIHE) ; da Silva, T. (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Da Silva, W. (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Della Ricca, Giuseppe (INFN, Trieste) ; De Angelis, Alessandro (INFN, Udine) ; De Boer, W. (Karlsruhe U.) ; De Clercq, C. (Brussels U., IIHE) ; De Lotto, Barbara (INFN, Udine) ; De Maria, N. (INFN, Turin) ; De Min, A. (INFN, Padua) ; de Paula, L. (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Di Ciaccio, L. (INFN, Rome) ; Di Simone, A. (INFN, Rome) ; Doroba, K. (Cornell U., LNS) ; Duperrin, A. (Lyon, IPN) ; Eigen, G. (Bergen U.) ; Ekelof, Tord (Uppsala U.) ; Ellert, Mattias (Uppsala U.) ; Elsing, M. (CERN) ; Espirito Santo, Maria Catarina (LIP, Lisbon) ; Fanourakis, George K. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Feindt, Michael (Karlsruhe U.) ; Fernandez, J. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Ferrer, Antonio (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Ferro, F. (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Flagmeyer, U. (Wuppertal U.) ; Foeth, H. (CERN) ; Fokitis, E. (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Fulda-Quenzer, F. (Orsay, LAL) ; Fuster, J. (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Gandelman, Miriam (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Garcia, C. (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Gavillet, Philippe (CERN) ; Gazis, Evangelos (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Gomez-Ceballos, G. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Goncalves, P. (LIP, Lisbon) ; Graziani, E. (INFN, Rome) ; Grosdidier, G. (Orsay, LAL) ; Grzelak, K. (Cornell U., LNS) ; Guy, J. (Rutherford) ; Haag, C. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Hallgren, A. (Uppsala U.) ; Hamacher, Klaus (Wuppertal U.) ; Hamilton, K. (Oxford U.) ; Haug, S. (Oslo U.) ; Hauler, F. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Hedberg, Vincent (Lund U.) ; Hennecke, M. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Herr, H. (CERN) ; Hoffman, J. (Cornell U., LNS) ; Holmgren, S-O. (Stockholm U.) ; Holt, P.J. (CERN) ; Houlden, M.A. (Liverpool U.) ; Jackson, John Neil (Liverpool U.) ; Jarlskog, Goran (Lund U.) ; Jarry, P. (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Jeans, D. (Oxford U.) ; Johansson, Erik Karl (Stockholm U.) ; Jonsson, P. (Lyon, IPN) ; Joram, C. (CERN) ; Jungermann, L. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Kapusta, Frederic (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Katsanevas, S. (Lyon, IPN) ; Katsoufis, E. (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Kernel, Gabrijel (Stefan Inst., Ljubljana) ; Kerzel, U. (Karlsruhe U.) ; King, B.T. (Liverpool U.) ; Kjaer, N.J. (CERN) ; Kluit, Peter (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Kokkinias, P. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Kourkoumelis, C. (Athens U.) ; Kouznetsov, O. (Dubna, JINR) ; Krumstein, Z. (Dubna, JINR) ; Kucharczyk, M. (Cracow, INP) ; Lamsa, J. (Iowa State U.) ; Leder, G. (Vienna, OAW) ; Ledroit, F. (Grenoble, CEN) ; Leinonen, L. (Stockholm U.) ; Leitner, R. (Charles U.) ; Lemonne, Jacques (Brussels U., IIHE) ; Lepeltier, V. (Orsay, LAL) ; Lesiak, T. (Cracow, INP) ; Liebig, W. (Wuppertal U.) ; Liko, D. (Vienna, OAW) ; Lipniacka, A. (Stockholm U.) ; Lopes, J.H. (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Lopez, J.M. (Oviedo U.) ; Loukas, D. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Lutz, Pierre (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Lyons, Louis (Oxford U.) ; MacNaughton, J. (Vienna, OAW) ; Malek, A. (Wuppertal U.) ; Maltezos, S. (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Mandl, F. (Vienna, OAW) ; Marco, J. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Marco, R. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Marechal, B. (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Margoni, M. (INFN, Padua) ; Marin, J-C. (CERN) ; Mariotti, C. (CERN) ; Markou, A. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Martinez-Rivero, C. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Masik, J. (Prague, Inst. Phys.) ; Mastroyiannopoulos, N. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Matorras, F. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Matteuzzi, C. (INFN, Milan Bicocca) ; Mazzucato, F. (INFN, Padua) ; Mazzucato, M. (INFN, Padua) ; Nulty, R.Mc (Liverpool U.) ; Meroni, C. (INFN, Milan) ; Migliore, E. (INFN, Turin) ; Mitaroff, W. (Vienna, OAW) ; Mjoernmark, U. (Lund U.) ; Moa, T. (Stockholm U.) ; Moch, M. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Monge, R. (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Montenegro, J. (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Moraes, D. (Rio de Janeiro Federal U.) ; Moreno, S. (LIP, Lisbon) ; Morettini, P. (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Muller, Ulrich (Wuppertal U.) ; Muenich, K. (Wuppertal U.) ; Mulders, M. (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Mundim Filho, Luiz Martins (Rio de Janeiro State U.) ; Murray, W. (Rutherford) ; Muryn, B. (Cracow, INP) ; Myatt, G. (Oxford U.) ; Myklebust, T. (Oslo U.) ; Nassiakou, M. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Navarria, F. (INFN, Bologna) ; Nawrocki, K. (Cornell U., LNS) ; Nicolaidou, R. (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Oblakowska-Mucha, A. (Cracow, INP) ; Obraztsov, V. (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Olshevski, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Onofre, A. (LIP, Lisbon) ; Orava, R. (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Osterberg, K. (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Ouraou, A. (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Oyanguren, A. (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Paganoni, M. (INFN, Milan Bicocca) ; Paiano, S. (INFN, Bologna) ; Palacios, J.P. (Liverpool U.) ; Palka, Henryk (Cracow, INP) ; Papadopoulou, Th.D. (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Pape, L. (CERN) ; Parkes, C. (Glasgow U.) ; Parodi, F. (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Parzefall, U. (CERN) ; Passeri, A. (INFN, Rome) ; Passon, O. (Wuppertal U.) ; Peralta, L. (LIP, Lisbon) ; Perepelitsa, V. (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Perrotta, Andrea (INFN, Bologna) ; Petrolini, Alessandro (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Piedra, Jonatan (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Pieri, L. (INFN, Rome) ; Pierre, Francois (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Pimenta, M. (LIP, Lisbon) ; Piotto, E. (CERN) ; Poireau, V. (CERN) ; Pol, M.E. (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) ; Polok, G. (Cracow, INP) ; Pozdniakov, V. (Dubna, JINR) ; Pukhaeva, N. (Dubna, JINR) ; Pullia, A. (INFN, Milan Bicocca) ; Radojicic, D. (Oxford U.) ; Rames, J. (Prague, Inst. Phys.) ; Read, A. (Oslo U.) ; Rebecchi, P. (CERN) ; Rehn, J. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Reid, D. (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Reinhardt, R. (Wuppertal U.) ; Renton, Peter (Oxford U.) ; Richard, F. (Orsay, LAL) ; Ridky, Jan (Prague, Inst. Phys.) ; Rivero, M. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Rodriguez, D. (Cantabria Inst. of Phys.) ; Romero, A. (INFN, Turin) ; Ronchese, Paolo (INFN, Padua) ; Roudeau, P. (Orsay, LAL) ; Rovelli, T. (INFN, Bologna) ; Ruhlmann, Vanina (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Ryabtchikov, D. (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Sadovsky, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Salmi, L. (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Salt, J. (Valencia U. ; Valencia U., IFIC) ; Sander, C. (Karlsruhe U.) ; Savoy-Navarro, A. (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Schwickerath, U. (CERN) ; Segar, A. (Oxford U.) ; Sekulin, R. (Rutherford) ; Siebel, Martin (Wuppertal U.) ; Simard, L. (DAPNIA, Saclay) ; Sisakian, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Smadja, G. 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Publication 2008
Imprint 12 Jul 2007
Number of pages 61
Note 63 pages, 14 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
In: Eur. Phys. J. C 55 (2008) 1-38
DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0585-7
Subject category Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LEP ; DELPHI
Abstract A measurement of the W boson mass and width has been performed by the DELPHI collaboration using the data collected during the full LEP2 programme (1996-2000). The data sample has an integrated luminosity of 660 pb^-1 and was collected over a range of centre-of-mass energies from 161 to 209 GeV. Results are obtained by applying the method of direct reconstruction of the mass of the W from its decay products in both the W+W- -> lvqq and W+W- -> qqqq channels. The W mass result for the combined data set is M_W = 80.336 +/- 0.055 (Stat.) +/- 0.028 (Syst.) +/- 0.025 (FSI) +/- 0.009 (LEP) GeV/c^2, where FSI represents the uncertainty due to final state interaction effects in the qqqq channel, and LEP represents that arising from the knowledge of the collision energy of the accelerator. The combined value for the W width is Gamma_W = 2.404 +/- 0.140 (Stat.) +/- 0.077 (Syst.) +/- 0.065 (FSI) GeV/c^2. These results supersede all values previously published by the DELPHI collaboration. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Carlo Caso.



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