W and Z Boson Production at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

The electroweak theory has been tested to high precision, with measurements probing its predictions at the loop level. The current generation of particle accelerators will produce enough W and Z bosons through hadron collisions to significantly improve the accuracy of these measurements. I review the issues related to such production, with particular emphasis on associated uncertainties on the W boson mass, which has now been measured more precisely at the Tevatron than at the Large Electron Positron collider.