Multi-photon corrections to W boson mass determination at hadron colliders

Abstract

The impact of higher-order final-state photonic corrections on the precise determination of the W-boson mass at the Tevatron and LHC colliders is evaluated. The W-mass shift from a fit to the transverse mass distribution is found to be about 10 MeV in the W --> mu nu channel and a few MeV in the W --> e nu channel. The calculation, which is implemented in the Monte Carlo event generator HORACE for data analysis, can contribute to reduce the uncertainty associated to the W mass measurement at present and future hadron collider experiments.

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS 2003), Aachen, Germany, 17-23 Jul 2003