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Bibliographic record
VenuePhysical Review Letters · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityYork UniversitySimon Fraser UniversityUniversity of Alberta
FundersInstitut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des ParticulesScience and Technology Facilities CouncilConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaFundação para o Desenvolvimento da UNESPCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueU.S. Department of EnergyVetenskapsrådetConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e TecnológicoBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungRussian Foundation for Basic ResearchFundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de JaneiroWestern Canada Research GridKorea Science and Engineering FoundationDepartment of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, IndiaGrantová Agentura České RepublikyFederal Agency for Science and InnovationDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftDepartamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloFermilabNational Science FoundationScience Foundation IrelandSecretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad de Buenos Aires
KeywordsTevatronPhysicsLuminosityRecoilParticle physicsColliderStandard Model (mathematical formulation)Collider Detector at FermilabFermilabNuclear physicsTransverse massLarge Hadron ColliderMaterials science
Abstract
We present a direct measurement of the width of the $W$ boson using the shape of the transverse mass distribution of $W\ensuremath{\rightarrow}e\ensuremath{\nu}$ candidate events. Data from approximately $1\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of integrated luminosity recorded at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\overline{p}$ collider are analyzed. We use the same methods and data sample that were used for our recently published $W$ boson mass measurement, except for the modeling of the recoil, which is done with a new method based on a recoil library. Our result, $2.028\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.072\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$, is in agreement with the predictions of the standard model.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.021
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".
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Citations18
Published2009
Admission routes2
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