A twisted tale of the transverse-mass tail in the W-boson mass measurement

Date

2022/12/20(Tue)11:00〜12:00

Venue

Hybrid (On-site: Seminar room 321, 322. Online: Zoom) 

Speaker

Dr. Samadrita Mukherjee (Tata Institute)

Language

English

URL

Contact

Masashi Aiko / maiko-AT-post.kek.jp


Overview

The discrepant measurement of the W mass by the CDF collaboration can be made consistent with all other current measurements, by the ATLAS, the LHCb, the D0, the LEP collaborations, and with the electroweak precision fit for $M_W$ in a minimal—albeit naive— an extension of the Standard Model. In our setup, there is only one new operator and a single new (pseudo-)scalar particle which manifests as an unaccounted-for contribution to missing energy. This simple extension is enough to simultaneously explain the different extractions of $M_W$ for a sizeable chunk of the parameter space. We support our analysis by extracting novel bounds on the new physics scenario from W-cross-section measurements and $WW$ cross-section measurements to show that parts of the parameter space are, indeed, still allowed. We also discuss possible ultraviolet completions of the setup. Finally, we present our predictions for $M_W$ that ATLAS and CMS would extract from their 13 TeV data.

Release date 2022/12/05 Updated 2024/03/02