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2024
Springer
Heidelberg
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12532-z doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2024-08015
Report No.: DESY-23-124; arXiv:2308.09417
Abstract: The compatibility of W-boson mass measurements performed by the ATLAS, LHCb, CDF, and D0 experiments is studied using a coherent framework with theory uncertainty correlations. The measurements are combined using a number of recent sets of parton distribution functions (PDF), and are further combined with the average value of measurements from the Large Electron–Positron collider. The considered PDF sets generally have a low compatibility with a suite of global rapidity-sensitive Drell–Yan measurements. The most compatible set is CT18 due to its larger uncertainties. A combination of all $m_W$ measurements yields a value of $m_W = 80{}394.6 \pm 11.5$ MeV with the CT18 set, but has a probability of compatibility of 0.5% and is therefore disfavoured. Combinations are performed removing each measurement individually, and a 91% probability of compatibility is obtained when the CDF measurement is removed. The corresponding value of the W boson mass is $80{}369.2 \pm 13.3$ MeV, which differs by $3.6\sigma $ from the CDF value determined using the same PDF set.
Keyword(s): p p: scattering ; p p: colliding beams ; anti-p p: scattering ; anti-p p: colliding beams ; electron positron: annihilation ; electron positron: colliding beams ; parton: distribution function ; W: mass: measured ; rapidity dependence ; CDF ; DZERO ; Batavia TEVATRON Coll ; coherence ; LHC-B ; correlation ; ATLAS ; CMS ; CERN LHC Coll ; CERN LEP Stor ; Drell-Yan process ; data analysis method ; experimental results
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Compatibility and combination of world W-boson mass measurements
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