Electroweak radiative corrections and the W boson mass at hadron colliders

Abstract

At present and future hadron colliders, the precision physics program started in the past will be continued. In particular, a precise determination of the W boson mass will be carried out. This requires the calculation of the radiative corrections and their implementation in Monte Carlo event generators for data analysis. In this talk, the status of the calculation of the order alpha electroweak radiative corrections is reviewed and a study of the impact of higher order QED corrections on the W boson mass is presented.

Talk given at 15th Conference on High-Energy Physics (IFAE 2003), Lecce, Italy, 23-26 Apr 2003