Determination of the Wmass and the WW and ZZ crosssection at LEP.pdfVIP

ˇ Proceedings of the DIS’2004, Strbsk´e Pleso, Slovakia DETERMINATION OF THE W-MASS AND THE WW AND ZZ CROSS-SECTION AT LEP 4 ¨ RAIMUND STROHMER 0 0 LMU M¨unchen, Sektion Physik 2 Am Coulombwall 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany E-mail: Raimund.Stroehmer@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE c e We review the precision measurement of the mass of the W-boson at LEP. We dis- D cuss the techniques used by the four LEP experiments to determine the mass of the W-boson as well as the major sources of systematic uncertainty. The measurement 7 of the W+W− and ZZ cross-sections are presented. 1 v 1 Introduction 9 1 0 In 1996 the center-of-mass energy of the electron-positron collider LEP was in- 2 creased above the threshold of two times the W-boson mass (MW ) which made 1 it possible to produce pairs of W-bosons in e+e− collisions and thus opened the 4 opportunity for a precision determination of the W-boson mass and measurements 0 / of its couplings and decay branching ratios. A detailed review of measurements of x the W-boson mass and its couplings can be found e.g. in [1]. e - p e h 2 Motivation : v i 0 X