W Boson Production and Mass at the Tevatron
Abstract
The CDF and D0 collaborations have analyzed up to ~200/pb of Run 2 physics data to measure W production properties such as the W cross section, the W width, lepton universality and the W charge asymmetry. From the cross section measurements, CDF obtains a lepton universality of gmu/ge = 0.998+-0.012 and gtau/ge = 0.99+-0.04 and an indirect W width of GammaW = 2079+-41 MeV. D0 measured the W width directly and finds GammaW = 2011+-142 MeV. CDF has estimated the uncertainties on the W boson mass measurements in the electron and muon decay channels and obtains an overall uncertainty of 76 MeV.
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