Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at the LHC
Final Report Abstract
Two major scientific goals have been associated with my Emmy Noether research group at the University of Mainz: the precision measurement of the W boson mass at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as the construction of a forward muon tagger for the ATLAS experiment. Due to an management decision my the ATLAS experiment, the muon forward tagger could not be built. Hence it was agreed to develop instead a prototype detector based on the Micromegas technology in view of the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. During the past yeas, I could aquire additional funding from the Volkswagen foundation and the federal ministry (BMBF), allowing me to expand my contributions to both research directions: Precision measurement of the W boson mass, using data from the LHC and Tevatron, and the development of Micromegas detectors. Both research goals have been met. My research group published the first measurement of the W boson mass at the LHC in 2016 with the ATLAS collaboration. It is the most precise measurement up to date, yielding a value of mW = 80370 ± 19 MeV, and relies fundamentally on the work performed within my research group. In the same year, my team installed a prototype detector based on Micromegas technology at the ATLAS detector for long term tests. This detector was designed and constructed in close collaboration with my previous colleagues at CERN. It builds the basis for the ongoing worldwide construction effort within the ATLAS New Small Wheel project. Both achievements led to several press articles. The W boson mass measurement was even selected as one of three research highlights of the Johannes Gutenberg University in 2016.
Publications
- Design, Construction and Performance Tests of a Prototype MicroMegas Chamber with Two Readout Planes in a Common Gas Volume, Nucl. Instrum. Meth.
B. Brickwedde, A. Düdder, M. Schott, E. Yildirim
- Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector, EPJ-C
M. Aaboud, et al.
- Precision measurement and interpretation of inclusive W+, W− and Z/γ∗ production cross sections with the ATLAS detector
M. Aaboud, et al.
- Review of single vector boson production in pp collisions at Eur. Phys. J. C74 (2014) 2916
M. Schott, M. Dunford
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2916-1) - Signal Characteristics of a Resistive-Strip Micromegas Detector with an Integrated Two- Dimensional Readout, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A767 (2014) 281–288
T.-H. Lin, A. Düdder, M. Schott, C. Valderanis, L. Wehner, R. Westenberger
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.002) - The global electroweak fit at NNLO and prospects for the LHC and ILC, Eur. Phys. J. C74 (2014) 3046
M. Baak, J. Cúth, J. Haller, A. Hoecker, R. Kogler, K. Mönig, M. Schott, J. Stelzer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3046-5) - Development and Study of a Micromegas Pad- Detector for High Rate Applications, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A803 (2015) 29–35
A. Düdder, T.-H. Lin, M. Schott, C. Valderanis
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.08.069) - Preservation of the D0 W mass measurement to incorporate future PDF and physics models, PoS EPS-HEP2015 (2015) 339
J. Cúth, M. Schott
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.234.0339) - Construction of two large-size four-plane micromegas detectors, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A814 (2016) 117–130
S. M. Bianco, Michele, et al.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.01.049) - Determination of the muonic branching ratio of the W boson and its total width via cross-section measurements at the Tevatron and LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C76 (11) (2016) 613
S. Camarda, J. Cuth, M. Schott
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4461-6) - Determination of the Transverse Momentum of W Bosons in Hadronic Collisions via Forward Folding Techniques, Mod. Phys. Lett. A31 (14) (2016) 1650069
J. Cuth, K. Merkotan, M. Schott, S. Webb
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732316500693) - Measurement of the transverse momentum and φ∗ distributions of Drell- Yan lepton pairs in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C76 (5) (2016) 291
G. Aad, et al.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4070-4) - Performance studies of a Micromegas detector with a pad readout geometry, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A824 (2016) 526–527
A. Düdder, T. H. Lin, F. Neuhaus, M. Schott, C. Valderanis
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.11.089)
