MEASUREMENT OF THE STANDARD MODEL PARAMETERS FROM A STUDY OF W AND Z BOSONS

Abstract A study has been made of the decays W → ev and Z → e + e − , using the UA2 detector at the CERN pp Collider. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 142 nb −1 at a centre-of-mass collision energy √ s =546 GeV, and 768 nb −1 at √ s =630 GeV. Measurements of the standard model parameters from samples of 251 W decay and 39 Z decay candidates are compared with expectations of the standard electroweak model.