Measurement of high- Q2 charged current cross sections in e−p deep inelastic scattering at HERA

• Published in: Physics letters. B Vol. 539; no. 3; pp. 197 - 217
• Main Authors: Musgrave, B, Mattingly, M.C.K, Boscherini, D, Cindolo, F, De Pasquale, S, Pesci, A, Sartorelli, G, Brock, I, Crittenden, J, Hartmann, H, Jakob, H.-P, Kappes, A, Katz, U.F, Kind, O, Paul, E, Tandler, J, Foster, B, Wing, M, Schioppa, M, Susinno, G, Pac, M.Y, Caldwell, A, Chwastowski, J, Przybycień, M.B, Stopa, P, Jeleń, K, Kisielewska, D, Kowal, M, Rulikowska-Zarȩbska, E, Suszycki, L, Derrick, M, Drews, G, Fourletova, J, Fox-Murphy, A, Goebel, F, Haas, T, Kowalski, H, Mankel, R, Pellmann, I.-A, Polini, A, Schneekloth, U, Surrow, B, Wessoleck, H, Wichmann, R, Schlenstedt, S, Gallo, E, Skillicorn, I.O, Holm, U, Klimek, K, Krumnack, N, Lohrmann, E, Stonjek, S, Wick, K, Ziegler, A, Ziegler, Ar, Gonçalo, R, Metlica, F, Filges, D, Kuze, M, Barakbaev, A.N, Son, D, Terrón, J, Padhi, S, Antonov, A, Gladkov, D, Sosnovtsev, V, Ermolov, P.F, Katkov, I.I, Engelen, J, Tiecke, H, Velthuis, J.J, Boogert, S, Ferrando, J, Grzelak, G, Matsushita, T, Ruske, O, Carlin, R, Parenti, A, Iga, Y, Hart, J.C, McCubbin, N.A, Abe, T, Fusayasu, T, Kohno, T, Hamatsu, R, Hirose, T, Inuzuka, M, Kitamura, S, Costa, M, Monaco, V, Solano, A, Nowak, R.J, Tymieniecka, T, Savin, A.A, Deshpande, A, Hughes, V.W, Catterall, C.D, Fourletov, S, Menary, S, Soares, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-07-2002
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02093-2

Cross sections for
e
−
p charged current deep inelastic scattering have been measured at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with an integrated luminosity of 16.4 pb
−1 using the ZEUS detector at HERA. Differential cross sections
dσ/
dQ
2,
dσ/
dx and
dσ/
dy are presented for
Q
2>200 GeV
2. In addition,
d
2σ/(dx
dQ
2)
was measured in the kinematic range
280 
GeV
2<Q
2<30
000 
GeV
2
and 0.015<
x<0.42. The predictions of the Standard Model agree well with the measured cross sections. The mass of the
W boson, determined from a fit to
dσ/
dQ
2, is
M
W
=80.3±2.1(stat.)±1.2(syst.)±1.0(PDF) GeV.