@article{22af0f3a2c7d4bf2b785f31d7f102aa9,
title = "Measurement of the W mass in e+e- collisions at production threshold",
abstract = "In June 1996, the LEP centre-of-mass energy was raised to 161 GeV. Pair production of W bosons in e+e- collisions was observed for the first time by the LEP experiments. An integrated luminosity of 11 pb-1 was recorded in the ALEPH detector, in which WW candidate events were observed. In 6 events both Ws decay leptonically. In 16 events, one W decays leptonically, the other into hadrons. In the channel where both Ws decay into hadrons, a signal was separated from the large background by means of several multi-variate analyses. The W pair cross-section is measured to be σww = 4.23 ± 0.73(stat.) ± 0.19(syst.) pb. From this cross-section, the W mass is derived within the framework of the Standard Model: mw = 80.14 ± 0.34(stat.) ± 0.09(syst.) ± 0.03(LEP energy) GeV/c2",
author = "{ALEPH Collaboration} and R. Barate and D. Buskulic and D. Decamp and P. Ghez and C. Goy and Lees, {J. P.} and A. Lucotte and Minard, {M. N.} and Nief, {J. Y.} and B. Pietrzyk and Casado, {M. P.} and M. Chmeissani and P. Comas and Crespo, {J. M.} and M. Delfino and E. Fernandez and M. Fernandez-Bosman and Ll Garrido and A. Juste and M. Martinez and R. Miquel and Mir, {Ll M.} and S. Orteu and C. Padilla and Park, {I. C.} and A. Pascual and Perlas, {J. A.} and I. Riu and F. Sanchez and F. Teubert and A. Colaleo and D. Creanza and {de Palma}, M. and G. Gelao and G. Iaselli and G. Maggi and M. Maggi and N. Marinelli and S. Nuzzo and A. Ranieri and G. Raso and F. Ruggieri and G. Selvaggi and L. Silvestris and P. Tempesta and A. Tricomi and G. Zito and X. Huang and J. Lin and P. Elmer",
note = "Funding Information: Spain I6 Supportedb y the Bundesministeriumf ur Bildung, Wissenschaft. Forschung und Technologie, Germany. I7 Supported by the Direction des Sciences de la Matitre, C.E.A. Is Supported by Fonds zur Fijrderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria. I{\textquoteright}) Supported by the US Departmentof Energy, grant DE-FG03-92ER40689. x1A lso at Istituto di Matematica e Fisica, Universita di Sassari, Sassari, Italy. 21A lso at CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland. 22P ermanenta ddress: Kangnung National University, Kangnung, Korea.",
year = "1997",
month = may,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00460-7",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "401",
pages = "347--362",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "3-4",
}