{"id":32278,"date":"2026-01-21T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/publication\/measurement-of-the-z-boson-mass\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:19:07","slug":"measurement-of-the-z-boson-mass","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/publication\/measurement-of-the-z-boson-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Measurement of the Z-boson mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first dedicated $Z$-boson mass measurement at the {LHC} with $Z \\to \\mu^+\\mu^-$ decays is reported. The dataset uses proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $13$ {TeV}, recorded in 2016 by the {LHCb} experiment, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb$^{-1}$. A template fit to the $\\mu^+\\mu^-$ mass distribution yields the following result for the $Z$-boson mass, $ m_{Z} = 91184.2 \\pm 8.5 \\pm 3.8 \\rm{MeV},$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This result is consistent with previous measurements and predictions from global electroweak fits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first dedicated $Z$-boson mass measurement at the {LHC} with $Z \\to \\mu^+\\mu^-$ decays is reported. The dataset uses proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $13$ {TeV}, recorded in 2016 by the {LHCb} experiment, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb$^{-1}$. A template fit to the $\\mu^+\\mu^-$ mass distribution yields the following result for the $Z$-boson mass, $ m_{Z} = 91184.2 \\pm 8.5 \\pm 3.8 \\rm{MeV},$ where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication-type":[30],"class_list":["post-32278","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication-type-article"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/32278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/32278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=32278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}