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Estimating the effects of Bose-Einstein correlations on the W mass measurement at LEP2

V. Kartvelishvili, R. Kvatadze, R. Moller

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9704424

Abstract

The influence of Bose-Einstein correlations on the determination of the mass of the W boson in e+e- -> WW -> 4jet events at LEP2 energies is studied, using a global event weighting method. We find that it is possible to keep the systematic error on the W mass from this source below 20 MeV, if suitable precautions are taken in the experimental analysis.

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