W mass measurement with muons at SQRT.S. = 1.8 TeV

The mass of the W vector boson has been measured from an analysis of W \to μ \nu decays in the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar p p$ collider. The mass is 79.90 $\pm$ 0.53(stat.) $\pm$ 0.31(sys.) $\pm$ 0.16(scale) GeV/c$\sp2$. When this result is combined with previous CDF measurements, sin\sp2θ\sb{W} is determined to be 0.231 $\pm$ 0.008. These measurements place an upper bound on the mass of the unfound top quark.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Schlabach, Philip

Contributors dc:contributor

• Errede, Steven M.

• Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Schlabach, Philip

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9114402
(UMI)AAI9114402

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22736