A measurement of the width of the W vector boson in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV
Abstract
This thesis describes a measurement of the W vector boson total width, ΓW, from the tail of the W transverse mass distribution. The 90 pb−1 of data used in this thesis were collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of [special characters omitted] = 1.8TeV. Fitting a Monte Carlo simulation to the data over the W transverse mass distribution in the range 100 GeV < MT < 200 GeV, we find that [special characters omitted]GeV.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Garfinkel, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Particle physics
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