High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

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• Prof Chris Hays (University of Oxford)
• Tuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00
• Ryle Seminar Room.

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The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. We have performed the most precise measurement of the W boson mass using data corresponding to 8.8 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The measured value is in significant tension with the prediction.

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