Measurement of the W jet mass

Jul 30, 2025, 9:00 AM
20m
Barus and Holley 168 (Brown University)

Barus and Holley 168

Brown University

184 Hope St, Providence, RI 02912
Oral Presentation Plenary Talks

Speaker

Andreas Hinzmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Description

The jet mass of W bosons decaying to a quark-antiquark pair is measured in W+jet events from proton-proton collisions in the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. W bosons with large transverse momentum (boost) produce strongly collimated decay products reconstructed as single large-radius jets. Jets initiated by W bosons with a characteristic two-prong substructure are distinguished from single quark- and gluon- initiated jets in background using a jet substructure observable. We report the double-differential cross section in bins of jet transverse momentum and jet soft drop mass. A first measurement of the W mass in an all-jets final state at a hadron collider is reported.

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