W and Z properties at the Tevatron
| dc.creator | Nurse, Emily | |
| dc.date | 2008-08-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:54:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:54:25Z | |
| dc.description | I present measurements of W and Z boson properties by the CDF and D0 collaborations. This includes measurements that test the production mechanism of the bosons and precision measurements of electroweak parameters. In the former category I present CDF measurements of the Z rapidity and W charge asymmetry that will help further constrain Parton Distribution Functions in future global fits, and a D0 measurement of the Z transverse momentum distribution that can be used to test the predictions of quantum-chromodynamics. In the later category I present a D0 measurement of the Z/gamma* forward-backward asymmetry and the subsequent extraction sin2theta_W = 0.2327 +/- 0.0018 (stat.) +/- 0.0006 (syst.) and a CDF measurement of the W width Gamma_W using a fit to the tail of the W transverse mass distribution in W->enu and W->munu events that yields Gamma_W = 2032 +/- 73 MeV. | |
| dc.description | Invited talk at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP2008), Galena, Illinois, USA, May 27-31, 2008; 8 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0218 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0218 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/166306 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Experiment | |
| dc.title | W and Z properties at the Tevatron | |
| dc.type | text |