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Chris Hays: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

Name: Chris Hays: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector
Start: 2022-05-06T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2022-05-06T14:00:00+01:00
Location: https://zoom.us/j/97041428849

Friday 6 May 2022, 12:30 → 14:00 Europe/London

https://zoom.us/j/97041428849

Description

The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last missing component of the model. After the observation of the Higgs boson, a measurement of the W boson mass provides a stringent test of the model. We measure the W boson mass using data corresponding to 8.8 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.

The seminar will be given in person in the Rutherford Lecture Theatre, Schuster. For those connecting remotely please use:

https://zoom.us/j/97041428849

Meeting ID: 970 4142 8849

Passcode: 6275

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Chris Hays: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

https://zoom.us/j/97041428849