# Measurement of the Z boson mass with the LHCb detector

- Institution: CERN
- Department: LHC Seminar
- Speaker: Emir Muhammad
- Year: 2025
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3021994)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
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In the Standard Model, the Z boson acquires its mass of around 91 GeV through its gauge interaction with the vacuum energy of the Higgs field. Including higher order corrections the Z mass is predicted with a precision of better than 10 MeV, which corresponds to one part in 10,000. The Z mass was measured to 2 MeV by the four LEP experiments in a beam-energy scan of the LEP e+e- collider. Meanwhile, hadron collider experiments have dominated the measurements of the W boson mass, but their studies of the Z boson mass have been primarily in the context of calibrations for the W mass analyses.

Here we present the first dedicated Z boson mass measurement in proton-proton collisions. The data were recorded in 2016 by the LHCb experiment and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb-1. The Z mass is determined from a fit to the dimuon mass distribution in Z -> mu+mu- decays. Templates from simulation are used in the fit, with a momentum calibration based on quarkonium resonance decays. The result is compared with previous measurements of the Z mass and with the predicted value from the global electroweak fit.

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## Lectures

1. [Measurement of the Z boson mass with the LHCb detector](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3021994/03af9f0ae04d), 1 h 3 min (CERN's player)