H422 (conference room, not for teaching) (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)
H422 (conference room, not for teaching)
Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department
Description
The W mass measurement has been considered one of the hardest
measurements in particle physics. It took the Tevatron 12 years to
produce the current very impressive result of 80387 +- 16 MeV, which is
expected to be a legacy of the Tevatron.
The LHC experiments will naturally try to improve on this precision, but
the question is if this is feasible with the high pileup at LHC. The one
major advantage of the LHC is the high statistics especially of the
Z-decays, and the question is now, if this statistical power can be used
to harness the systematic uncertainties especially in connection with
the missing transverse energy, and also control the theoretical
systematic uncertainties.
Some of us believe that it is possible...