| Title: | W mass measurement with muons at SQRT.S. = 1.8 TeV |
| Author(s): | Schlabach, Philip |
| Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Errede, Steven M. |
| Department / Program: | Physics |
| Discipline: | Physics |
| Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Degree: | Ph.D. |
| Genre: | Dissertation |
| Subject(s): | Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy |
| Abstract: | The mass of the W vector boson has been measured from an analysis of $W \to\ \mu\ \nu$ 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$\sp2\theta\sb{W}$ is determined to be 0.231 $\pm$ 0.008. These measurements place an upper bound on the mass of the unfound top quark. |
| Issue Date: | 1990 |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22736 |
| Rights Information: | Copyright 1990 Schlabach, Philip |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2011-05-07 |
| Identifier in Online Catalog: | AAI9114402 |
| OCLC Identifier: | (UMI)AAI9114402 |
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