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Measuring the mass of the W at the LHC

S. Keller, J. Womersley

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9611327

Abstract

We explore the ability of the Large Hadron Collider to measure the mass of the W boson. We believe that a precision better than ~ 15 MeV could be attained, based on a year of operation at low luminosity (10(33)cm(-2)s(-1)). If this is true, this measurement will be the world's best determination of the W mass. We feel this interesting opportunity warrants investigation in more detail.

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