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1. Tests of the standard model and constraints on new physics from measurements of fermion-pair production at 189-209 GeV at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, C.CIOCCA, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, L. ZIVKOVIC, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Top quark, Muon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Electron–positron annihilation, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pair production, Chargino, Neutralino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Event generator
Abstract: Cross-section and angular distributions for hadronic and lepton-pair final states in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV and 209 GeV, measured with the OPAL detector at LEP, are presented and compared with the predictions of the Standard Model. The measurements are used to determine the electromagnetic coupling constant alphaem at LEP2 energies. In addition, the results are used together with OPAL measurements at 91-183 GeV within the S-matrix formalism to determine the gamma-Z interference term and to make an almost model-independent measurement of the Z mass. Limits on extensions to the Standard Model described by effective four-fermion contact interactions or the addition of a heavy Z boson are also presented., Comment: 79 pages, 22 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2004

2. Search for associated production of massive states decaying into two photons in e+e− annihilations at =88–209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Cohen, I., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turcot, A.S., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Scalar (mathematics), FOS: Physical sciences, Sigma, Context (language use), 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Gamma gamma, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Higgs boson, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), Limit (mathematics), 010306 general physics, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search is performed for production of short-lived particles in e+e- -> XY, with X -> gamma gamma and Y -> ffbar, for scalar X and scalar or vector Y. Model-independent limits in the range of 25-60 femtobarns are presented on sigma (e+e- -> XY) x B(X -> ffbar) for centre-of-mass energies in the range 205-207 GeV. The data from all LEP centre-of-mass energies 88-209 GeV are also interpreted in the context of fermiophobic Higgs boson models, for which a lower mass limit of 105.5 GeV is obtained for a "benchmark" fermiophobic Higgs boson., 17 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2002

3. Measurement of the hadronic cross-section for the scattering of two virtual photons at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., G., Abbiendi, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, J., Bohme, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, J., Couchman, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M. S., Dixit, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, D., Glenzinski, J., Goldberg, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, D., Krop, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, I., Lawson, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, C., Littlewood, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, G. D., Long, M. J., Losty, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., C., Sbarra, A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, L., Stumpf, B., Surrow, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Hadron, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Virtual particle, Parton, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Cross section (physics), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The interaction of virtual photons is investigated using the reaction e+e- -> e+e- hadrons based on data taken by the OPAL experiment at e+e- centre-of-mass energies sqrt(s_ee)=189-209 GeV, for W>5 GeV and at an average Q^2 of 17.9 GeV^2. The measured cross-sections are compared to predictions of the Quark Parton Model (QPM), to the Leading Order QCD Monte Carlo model PHOJET to the NLO prediction for the reaction e+e- -> e+e-qqbar, and to BFKL calculations. PHOJET, NLO e+e- -> e+e-qqbar, and QPM describe the data reasonably well, whereas the cross-section predicted by a Leading Order BFKL calculation is too large., 30 pages, 10 figures, Submitted to Eur.Phys.J. C
Published: 2002

4. Investigation of the decay of orbitally-excited B mesons and first measurement of the branching ratio ${\rm BR}({\rm B}^_J \rightarrow{\rm B}^ \pi (X))$

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., de Wolf, E., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vachon, B., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: Physics, Quark, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Meson, Branching fraction, Hadron, Analytical chemistry, Resonance, 01 natural sciences, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Mass spectrum, B meson, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: From about 4 million hadronic Z decays recorded by the OPAL detector on and near to the Z resonance, we select a sample of more than 570000 inclusively reconstructed B mesons. Orbitally-excited mesons B*J are reconstructed using Bpi+- combinations. Independently, B* mesons are reconstructed using the decay B* -> Bgamma. The selected B* candidates are used to obtain samples enriched or depleted in the decay B*J -> B*pi+-(X), where (X) refers to decay modes with or without additional accompanying decay particles. From the number of signal candidates in the Bpi+- mass spectra of these two samples, we perform the first measurement of the branching ratio of orbitally-excited B mesons decaying into B*pi(X): BR(B*J ->B*pi(X)) = 0.85 +0.36-0.37 +- 0.12, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. If B*J decay modes other than single pion transitions can be neglected the measured ratio corresponds to the branching ratio BR(B*J->B*pi). In the framework of Heavy Quark Symmetry, a simultaneous fit to the Bpi+- mass spectra of the samples enriched or depleted in B*J->B*pi+-(X) decays yields the mass and the width of the B1(3/2) state, as well as the branching ratio of B*J mesons decaying into B*pi: M(B1(3/2)) = (5.738 +0.005-0.006 +-0.007) GeV/c2 G(B1(3/2)) = (18 +15-13 +29-23) MeV/c BR(B*J->B*pi) = 0.74 +0.12-0.10 +0.21-0.15, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. From about 4 million hadronic Z decays recorded by the OPAL detector on and near to the Z resonance, we select a sample of more than 570000 inclusively reconstructed B mesons. Orbitally-excited mesons B*J are reconstructed using Bpi+- combinations. Independently, B* mesons are reconstructed using the decay B* -> Bgamma. The selected B* candidates are used to obtain samples enriched or depleted in the decay B*J -> B*pi+-(X), where (X) refers to decay modes with or without additional accompanying decay particles. From the number of signal candidates in the Bpi+- mass spectra of these two samples, we perform the first measurement of the branching ratio of orbitally-excited B mesons decaying into B*pi(X): BR(B*J ->B*pi(X)) = 0.85 +0.36-0.37 +- 0.12, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. If B*J decay modes other than single pion transitions can be neglected the measured ratio corresponds to the branching ratio BR(B*J->B*pi). In the framework of Heavy Quark Symmetry, a simultaneous fit to the Bpi+- mass spectra of the samples enriched or depleted in B*J->B*pi+-(X) decays yields the mass and the width of the B1(3/2) state, as well as the branching ratio of B*J mesons decaying into B*pi: M(B1(3/2)) = (5.738 +0.005-0.006 +-0.007) GeV/c2 G(B1(3/2)) = (18 +15-13 +29-23) MeV/c BR(B*J->B*pi) = 0.74 +0.12-0.10 +0.21-0.15, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
Published: 2002

5. Measurement of the mass and width of the W boson in e+e− collisions at 189 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., de Wolf, E., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vachon, B., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., G., Abbiendi, K., Ackerstaff, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S. F., Ashby, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, A. H., Ball, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, S., Baumann, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, J., Bohme, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, P., Bright Thoma, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, P., Capiluppi, R. K., Carnegie, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, O. C., Cooke, J., Couchman, C., Couyoumtzeli, R. L., Coxe, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., de Roeck, E., de Wolf, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M. S., Dixit, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, P. G., Estabrook, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, M., Fanti, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, D., Glenzinski, J., Goldberg, C., Grandi, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, C., Hajdu, G. G., Hanson, M., Hansroul, M., Hapke, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, A., Hauke, M., Hauschild, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, A., Hocker, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, A. K., Honma, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, F. R., Jacob, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, I., Lawson, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, R., Liebisch, J., Lillich, B., List, C., Littlewood, A. W., Lloyd, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, G. D., Ling, M. J., Losty, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, W., Mohr, A., Montanari, T., Mori, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, F. G., Oakham, F., Odorici, H. O., Ogren, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J., Patt, P., Pfeifenschneider, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, A. M., Rossi, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, O., Runolfsson, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., C., Sbarra, A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G. P., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, K., Stoll, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, L., Stumpf, B., Surrow, S. D., Talbot, S., Tarem, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M., Thiergen, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, S., Tower, D., Toya, T., Trefzger, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Vachon, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, J. S., White, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, D., Zer Zion, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electroweak interaction, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Invariant mass, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The mass and width of the W boson are determined in e+e- collisions at LEP using 183 pb^-1 of data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy roots=189 GeV with the OPAL detector. The invariant mass distributions from 970 WW->qqqq and 1118 WW->qqln candidate events are used to measure the mass of the W boson, Mw = 80.451 +- 0.076(stat.) +- 0.049(syst.) GeV. A direct measurement of the width of the W boson gives Gw=2.09 +- 0.18(stat.) +- 0.09(syst.) GeV. The results are combined with previous OPAL results from 78 pb^-1 of data recorded with roots from 161 to 183 GeV, to obtain: Mw = 80.432 +- 0.066(stat.) +- 0.045(syst.) GeV, Gw = 2.04 +- 0.16(stat.) +- 0.09(syst.) GeV. The consistency of the direct measurement of Mw with that inferred from other measurements of electroweak parameters provides an important test of the Standard Model of electroweak interactions., 24 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Published: 2001

6. Multiplicities of $\pi^0, \eta,\rm K^0$ and of charged particles in quark and gluon jets

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, S., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., G., Abbiendi, K., Ackerstaff, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S. F., Ashby, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, A. H., Ball, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, J. R., Batley, S., Baumann, T., Belmke, K. W., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, S., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, P., Bock, J., Bohme, O., Boeriu, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braidant, P., Bright Thoma, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, P., Capiluppi, R. K., Carnegie, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, C., Ciocca, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, O. C., Cooke, J., Couchman, C., Couyoumtzeli, R. L., Coxe, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., de Roeck, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M. S., Dixit, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, P. G., Estabrook, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, M., Fanti, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, D., Glenzinski, J., Goldberg, C., Grandi, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, C., Hajdu, G. G., Hanson, M., Hansroul, M., Hapke, K., Harder, A., Harel, C. K., Hargrove, M., Harin Dirac, A., Hauke, M., Hauschild, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, M. D., Hildreth, J. C., Hill, A., Hocker, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, A. K., Honma, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, F. R., Jacob, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, I., Lawson, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, R., Liebisch, J., Lillich, B., List, C., Littlewood, A. W., Lloyd, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, G. D., Long, M. J., Losty, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, M., Mannelli, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, W., Mohr, A., Montanari, T., Mori, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, F. G., Oakham, F., Odorici, H. O., Ogren, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J., Patt, P., Pfeifenschneider, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, C., Rembser, H., Rick, S. A., Robin, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, A. M., Rossi, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, O., Runolfsson, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., C., Sbarra, A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, S., Schmitt, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shephard Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G. P., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, K., Stoll, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, B., Surrow, S. D., Talbot, S., Tarem, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M., Thiergen, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, S., Tower, T., Trefzger, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, J. S., White, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Lattice, Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Eta meson, Multiplicity (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Charged particle, Gluon, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, Particle, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We compared the multiplicities of pizero, eta, Kzero and of charged particles in quark and gluon jets in 3-jet events, as measured by the OPAL experiment at LEP. The comparisons were performed for distributions unfolded to 100% pure quark and gluon jets, at an effective scale Qjet which took into account topological dependences of the 3-jet environment. The ratio of particle multiplicity in gluon jets to that in quark jets as a function of Qjet for pizero, eta and Kzero was found to be independent of the particle species. This is consistent with the QCD prediction that the observed enhancement in the mean particle rate in gluon jets with respect to quark jets should be independent of particle species. In contrast to some theoretical predictions and previous observations, we observed no evidence for an enhancement of eta meson production in gluon jets with respect to quark jets, beyond that observed for charged particles. We measured the ratio of the slope of the average charged particle multiplicity in gluon jets to that in quark jets, C, and we compared it to a next-to-next-to-next-to leading order calculation. Our result, C=2.27+-0.20(stat+syst),is about one standard deviation higher than the perturbative prediction. We compared the multiplicities of pizero, eta, Kzero and of charged particles in quark and gluon jets in 3-jet events, as measured by the OPAL experiment at LEP. The comparisons were performed for distributions unfolded to 100% pure quark and gluon jets, at an effective scale Qjet which took into account topological dependences of the 3-jet environment. The ratio of particle multiplicity in gluon jets to that in quark jets as a function of Qjet for pizero, eta and Kzero was found to be independent of the particle species. This is consistent with the QCD prediction that the observed enhancement in the mean particle rate in gluon jets with respect to quark jets should be independent of particle species. In contrast to some theoretical predictions and previous observations, we observed no evidence for an enhancement of eta meson production in gluon jets with respect to quark jets, beyond that observed for charged particles. We measured the ratio of the slope of the average charged particle multiplicity in gluon jets to that in quark jets, C, and we compared it to a next-to-next-to-next-to leading order calculation. Our result, C=2.27+-0.20(stat+syst),is about one standard deviation higher than the perturbative prediction.
Published: 2000

7. Search for invisibly decaying Higgs bosons in $e^{+}e^{-} \rightarrow Z^{0}h^{0}$ production at $\sqrt{s} = 183 - 209 GeV$

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, K.W., Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brown, R.M., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, M., Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krasznahorkay, A., Jr., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Mashimo, T., Mattig, P., McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, N., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, D.E., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, M., Schumacher, M., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, D., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, L.
Subjects: Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search is performed for Higgs bosons decaying into invisible final states, produced in association with a Zo boson in e+e- collisions at energies between 183 and 209 GeV. The search is based on data samples collected by the OPAL detector at LEP corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 660 pb-1. The analysis aims to select events containing the hadronic decay products of the Zo boson and large missing momentum, as expected from Higgs boson decay into a pair of stable weakly interacting neutral particles, such as the lightest neutralino in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The same analysis is applied to a search for nearly invisible Higgs boson cascade decays into stable weakly interacting neutral particles. No excess over the expected background from Standard Model processes is observed. Limits on the production of invisibly decaying Higgs bosons produced in association with a Zo boson are derived. Assuming a branching ratio BR(ho->invisible)=1, a lower limit of 108.2 GeV is placed on the Higgs boson mass at the 95% confidence level. Limits on the production of nearly invisibly decaying Higgs bosons are also obtained. A search is performed for Higgs bosons decaying into invisible final states, produced in association with a Z 0 boson in e+e− collisions at energies between 183 and 209 GeV. The search is based on data samples collected by the OPAL detector at LEP corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 660 pb −1 . The analysis aims to select events containing the hadronic decay products of the Z 0 boson and large missing momentum, as expected from Higgs boson decay into a pair of stable weakly interacting neutral particles, such as the lightest neutralino in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The same analysis is applied to a search for nearly invisible Higgs boson cascade decays into stable weakly interacting neutral particles. No excess over the expected background from Standard Model processes is observed. Limits on the production of invisibly decaying Higgs bosons produced in association with a Z 0 boson are derived. Assuming a branching ratio BR(h0→invisible)=1 , a lower limit of 108.2 GeV is placed on the Higgs boson mass at the 95% confidence level. Limits on the production of nearly invisibly decaying Higgs bosons are also obtained. A search is performed for Higgs bosons decaying into invisible final states, produced in association with a Zo boson in e+e- collisions at energies between 183 and 209 GeV. The search is based on data samples collected by the OPAL detector at LEP corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 660 pb-1. The analysis aims to select events containing the hadronic decay products of the Zo boson and large missing momentum, as expected from Higgs boson decay into a pair of stable weakly interacting neutral particles, such as the lightest neutralino in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The same analysis is applied to a search for nearly invisible Higgs boson cascade decays into stable weakly interacting neutral particles. No excess over the expected background from Standard Model processes is observed. Limits on the production of invisibly decaying Higgs bosons produced in association with a Zo boson are derived. Assuming a branching ratio BR(ho->invisible)=1, a lower limit of 108.2 GeV is placed on the Higgs boson mass at the 95% confidence level. Limits on the production of nearly invisibly decaying Higgs bosons are also obtained.
Published: 2007

8. Determination of αS using jet rates at LEP with the OPAL detector

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krasznahorkay, A., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, R.M.BROWN, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, P.CAPILUPPI, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, C.CIOCCA, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW, P.O.GUNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, D.HORVATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KRAMER, A.KRASZNAHORKAY, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU27, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, T.MASHIMO, P.MATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.PASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIEN, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, A.M.ROSSI, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCHORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHRODER, M. SCHUMACHER, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. SOLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STROHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TROCSANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJVARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.VERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON1, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, L. ZIVKOVIC, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Jet (fluid), Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, JADE (particle detector), High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Collider, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Hadronic events produced in e+e- collisions by the LEP collider and recorded by the OPAL detector were used to form distributions based on the number of reconstructed jets. The data were collected between 1995 and 2000 and correspond to energies of 91 GeV, 130-136 GeV and 161-209 GeV. The jet rates were determined using four different jet-finding algorithms (Cone, JADE, Durham and Cambridge). The differential two-jet rate and the average jet rate with the Durham and Cambridge algorithms were used to measure alpha(s) in the LEP energy range by fitting an expression in which order alpah_2s calculations were matched to a NLLA prediction and fitted to the data. Combining the measurements at different centre-of-mass energies, the value of alpha_s (Mz) was determined to be alpha(s)(Mz)=0.1177+-0.0006(stat.)+-0.0012$(expt.)+-0.0010(had.)+-0.0032(theo.) \., 40 pages, 17 figures, Submitted to Euro. Phys. J. C
Published: 2005

9. Colour reconnection in $e^{+}e^{-} \rightarrow W^{+}W^{-}$ at $\sqrt{s}=189-209 GeV$

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krasznahorkay, A., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The effects of the final state interaction phenomenon known as colour reconnection are investigated at centre-of-mass energies in the range $\sqrt{s}~ 189-209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Colour reconnection is expected to affect observables based on charged particles in hadronic decays of W+W-. Measurements of inclusive charged particle multiplicities, and of their angular distribution with respect to the four jet axes of the events, are used to test models of colour reconnection. The data are found to exclude extreme scenarios of the Sjostrand-Khoze Type I (SK-I) model and are compatible with other models, both with and without colour reconnection effects. In the context of the SK-I model, the best agreement with data is obtained for a reconnection probability of 37%. Assuming no colour reconnection, the charged particle multiplicity in hadronically decaying W bosons is measured to be (nqqch) = 19.38+-0.05(stat.)+-0.08 (syst.). The effects of the final state interaction phenomenon known as colour reconnection are investigated at centre-of-mass energies in the range sqrt(s) ~ 189-209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Colour reconnection is expected to affect observables based on charged particles in hadronic decays of W+W-. Measurements of inclusive charged particle multiplicities, and of their angular distribution with respect to the four jet axes of the events, are used to test models of colour reconnection. The data are found to exclude extreme scenarios of the Sjostrand-Khoze Type I (SK-I) model and are compatible with other models, both with and without colour reconnection effects. In the context of the SK-I model, the best agreement with data is obtained for a reconnection probability of 37%. Assuming no colour reconnection, the charged particle multiplicity in hadronically decaying W bosons is measured to be (nqqch) = 19.38+-0.05(stat.)+-0.08 (syst.).
Published: 2005

10. Flavour-independent <tex>h^{0}A^{0}$</tex> search and two Higgs doublet model interpretation of neutral Higgs boson searches at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Hadron, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, Higgs sector, Standard Model, Two-Higgs-doublet model, 0103 physical sciences, Higgs boson, CP violation, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Boson
Abstract: Upper limits on the cross-section of the pair-production process e+e- -> h0A0 assuming 100% decays into hadrons, are derived from a new search for the h0A0 -> hadrons topology, independent of the hadronic flavour of the decay products. Searches for the neutral Higgs bosons h0 and A0, are used to obtain constraints on the Type II Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM(11)) with no CP violation in the Higgs sector and no additional non Standard Model particles besides the five Higgs bosons. The analysis combines LEP1 and LEP2 data collected with the OPAL detctor up to the highest available centre-of-mass energies. The searches are sensitive to the h0, A0 -> qq, gg,tau+tau- and h0 -> A0A0 decay modes of the Higgs bosons. The 2HDM(II) parameter space is explored in a detailed scan. Large regions of the 2HDM(II) parameter space are excluded at the 95% CL in the (mh, mA), (mh, tanb) and (mA, tanb) planes, using both direct neutral Higgs boson searches and indirect limits derived from Standard Model high precision measurements. The region 1 lesssim mh lesssim 55 GeV and 3 lesssim mA lesssim 63 GeV is excluded at 95% CL independently of the choice of the 2HDM(II) parameters. Upper limits on the cross-section of the pair-production process e+e- -> h0A0 assuming 100% decays into hadrons, are derived from a new search for the h0A0 -> hadrons topology, independent of the hadronic flavour of the decay products. Searches for the neutral Higgs bosons h0 and A0, are used to obtain constraints on the Type II Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM(11)) with no CP violation in the Higgs sector and no additional non Standard Model particles besides the five Higgs bosons. The analysis combines LEP1 and LEP2 data collected with the OPAL detctor up to the highest available centre-of-mass energies. The searches are sensitive to the h0, A0 -> qq, gg,tau+tau- and h0 -> A0A0 decay modes of the Higgs bosons. The 2HDM(II) parameter space is explored in a detailed scan. Large regions of the 2HDM(II) parameter space are excluded at the 95% CL in the (mh, mA), (mh, tanb) and (mA, tanb) planes, using both direct neutral Higgs boson searches and indirect limits derived from Standard Model high precision measurements. The region 1 lesssim mh lesssim 55 GeV and 3 lesssim mA lesssim 63 GeV is excluded at 95% CL independently of the choice of the 2HDM(II) parameters.
Published: 2005

11. Measurement of event shape distributions and moments in $e^{+}e^{-} \to$ hadrons at 91-209 GeV and a determination of $\alpha_{s}$

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Roeck, A.De, Wolf, E.A.De, Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanfani, A., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., Krogh, J.von, Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We have studied hadronic events from e+e- annihilation data at centre-of-mass energies from 91 to 209 GeV. We present distributions of event shape observables and their moments at each energy and compare with QCD Monte Carlo models. From the event shape distributions we extract the strong coupling alpha_s and test its evolution with energy scale. The results are consistent with the running of alpha_s expected from QCD. Combining all data, the value of alpha_s (M_z) is determined to be alpha_s(Mz)=0.1191+-0.0005(stat.)+-0.0010 (expt.)+-0.0011(hadr.)+-0.0044(theo.) The energy evolution of the moments is also used to determine a value of alpha_ with slightly larger errors: alpha_s(Mz)=0.1223+-0.0005(stat.) +-0.0014(expt.) +-0.0016(hadr.) +0.0054 -0.0036 (theo). We have studied hadronic events from e+e- annihilation data at centre-of-mass energies from 91 to 209 GeV. We present distributions of event shape observables and their moments at each energy and compare with QCD Monte Carlo models. From the event shape distributions we extract the strong coupling alpha_s and test its evolution with energy scale. The results are consistent with the running of alpha_s expected from QCD. Combining all data, the value of alpha_s(M_Z) is determined to be alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1191 +- 0.0005 (stat.) +- 0.0010 (expt.) +- 0.0011 (hadr.) +- 0.0044 (theo.). The energy evolution of the moments is also used to determine a value of alpha_s with slightly larger errors: alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1223 +- 0.0005 (stat.) +- 0.0014 (expt.) +- 0.0016 (hadr.) +0.0054 -0.0036 (theo.).
Published: 2004

12. Study of Bose-Einstein Correlations in $e^{+}e^{-}\to W^{+}W^{-}$ events at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Klein, K., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Bose-Einstein correlation between like-sign charged-particle pairs in e+e- -> W+W- events recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV are studied. Recently proposed methods which allow direct searches for correlations in the data via distributions of test variables are used to investigate the presence of correlations between hadrons originating from different W bosons in W+W- -> qqqq events. Within the statistics of the data sample no evidence for inter-WW Bose-Einstein correlations is obtained. The data are also compared with predictions of a recent implementation of Bose-Einstein correlation effects in the Monte Carlo model PYTHIA. Bose-Einstein correlation between like-sign charged-particle pairs in e+e- -> W+W- events recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV are studied. Recently proposed methods which allow direct searches for correlations in the data via distributions of test variables are used to investigate the presence of correlations between hadrons originating from different W bosons in W+W- -> qqqq events. Within the statistics of the data sample no evidence for inter-WW Bose-Einstein correlations is obtained. The data are also compared with predictions of a recent implementation of Bose-Einstein correlation effects in the Monte Carlo model PYTHIA.
Published: 2004

13. Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Boson Couplings from $\nu\overline{\nu}\gamma\gamma$ and $q\overline{q}\gamma\gamma$ events at LEP 2

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Anomalous quartic couplings between the electroweak gauge bosons may contribute to the vv gamma gamma and qq gamma gamma final states produced in e+e- collisions. This analysis uses the LEP2 OPAL data sample at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. Event selections identify vv gamma gamma and qq gamma gamma events in which the two photons are reconstructed within the detector acceptance. The cross-section for the process e+e- -> qq gamma gamma is measured. Averaging over all energies, the ratio of the observed e+e- -> qq gamma gamma cross-section to the Standard Model expectation is R(data/SM) = 0.92 +- 0.07 +- 0.04 where the errors represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties respectively. The vv gamma gamma and qq gamma gamma data are used to constrain possible anomalous W+W- gamma gamma and ZZ gamma gamma couplings. Combining with previous OPAL results from the W+W- gamma final state, the 95% confidence level limits on the anomalous coupling parameters aoz, acz, aow and acw are found to be: -0.007 GeV^-2 < aoz/Lambda^2 < 0.023 GeV^-2 -0.029 GeV^-2 < acz/Lambda^2 < 0.029 GeV^-2 -0.020 GeV^-2 < aow/Lambda^2 < 0.020 GeV^-2 -0.052 GeV^-2 < acw/Lambda^2 < 0.037 GeV^-2 where Lamdba is the energy scale of the new physics. Limits found when allowing two or more parameters to vary are also presented. Anomalous quartic couplings between the electroweak gauge bosons may contribute to the vv gamma gamma and qq gamma gamma final states produced in e+e- collisions. This analysis uses the LEP2 OPAL data sample at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. Event selections identify vv gamma gamma and qq gamma gamma events in which the two photons are reconstructed within the detector acceptance. The cross-section for the process e+e- -> qq gamma gamma is measured. Averaging over all energies, the ratio of the observed e+e- -> qq gamma gamma cross-section to the Standard Model expectation is R(data/SM) = 0.92 +- 0.07 +- 0.04 where the errors represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties respectively. The vv gamma gamma and qq gamma gamma data are used to constrain possible anomalous W+W- gamma gamma and ZZ gamma gamma couplings. Combining with previous OPAL results from the W+W- gamma final state, the 95% confidence level limits on the anomalous coupling parameters aoz, acz, aow and acw are found to be: -0.007 GeV^-2 < aoz/Lambda^2 < 0.023 GeV^-2 -0.029 GeV^-2 < acz/Lambda^2 < 0.029 GeV^-2 -0.020 GeV^-2 < aow/Lambda^2 < 0.020 GeV^-2 -0.052 GeV^-2 < acw/Lambda^2 < 0.037 GeV^-2 where Lamdba is the energy scale of the new physics. Limits found when allowing two or more parameters to vary are also presented.
Published: 2004

14. A study of W+W- gamma events at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, G.P.SIROLI, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, and L. ZIVKOVIC
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A study of W+W- events accomanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with being two on-shell W bosons and an isolated photon are selected from 681 pb^-1 of data recorded at 180 GeV < sqrt(s) < 209 GeV. For these data , 187 W+W- candidates are selected with photon energies greater than 2.5 GeV. The selected events are used to determine the W+ W- gamma cross section at five values of sqrt(s). The results are consistent with the Standard Model expectation. These data provide constraints on the related O(alpha) systematic uncertainties on the measurement of the W boson mass at LEP. Finally, the data are used to derive 95% C.L. upper limits on possible anomalous contributions to the W+ W- gamma gamma and W+ W- Z0 gamma vertices. A study of W+W- events accomanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with being two on-shell W bosons and an isolated photon are selected from 681 pb^-1 of data recorded at 180 GeV < sqrt(s) < 209 GeV. For these data, 187 W+W- candidates are selected with photon energies greater than 2.5 GeV. The selected events are used to determine the W+ W- gamma cross section at five values of sqrt(s). The results are consistent with the Standard Model expectation. These data provide constraints on the related O(alpha) systematic uncertainties on the measurement of the W boson mass at LEP. Finally, the data are used to derive 95% C.L. upper limits on possible anomalous contributions to the W+ W- gamma gamma and W+ W- Z0 gamma vertices. A study of W + W − events accompanied by hard photon radiation, E γ >2.5 GeV, produced in e + e − collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with being two on-shell W-bosons and an isolated photon are selected from 681 pb −1 of data recorded at 180 GeV < s
Published: 2004

15. Measurement of the Strange Spectral Function in Hadronic tau Decays

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Menke, S., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, C.CIOCCA, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, L. ZIVKOVIC, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Monte Carlo method, Hadron, Nuclear Theory, FOS: Physical sciences, Strangeness, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Invariant mass, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Spectral function, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: Tau lepton decays with open strangeness in the final state are measured with the OPAL detector at LEP to determine the strange hadronic spectral function of the tau lepton. The decays T- ->(Kpi)-nu tau, (Kpipi)-nu tau and (Kpipipi) -nu tau with final states consisting of neutral and charged kaons and pions have been studied. The invariant mass distributions of 93.4% of these final states have been experimentally determined. Monte Carlo simulations have been used for the remaining 6.6% and for the strange final states including eta mesons. The reconstructed strange final states, corrected for resolution effects and detection efficiencies, yield the strange spectral function of the tau lepton. The moments of the spectral function and the ration of strange to non-strange moments, which are important input parameters for theoretical analysis, are determined. Furthermore, the branching fractions B(tau- -> K-pi0nu tau)=(0.471+-0.064stat+_0.022sys)% and B(tau- -> K-pi+pi-nu tau)=(0.415+-0.059stat+-0.031sys)% have been measured., 32 pages, 18 figures, Submitted to Euro. Phys.J. C
Published: 2004
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16. Determination of the LEP Beam Energy using Radiative Fermion-pair Events, 2004

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a determination of the LEP beam energy using "radiative return" fermion-pair events recorded at centre-of-mass energies from 183 GeV to 209 GeV. We find no evidence of a disagreement between the OPAL data and the LEP Energy Workings Group's standard calibration. Including the energy- averaged 11 MeV uncertainty in the standard determination, the beam energy we obtain from the OPAL data is higher than that obtained from the LEP calibration by 0+-34(stat.)+-27(syst.)MeV We present a determination of the LEP beam energy using radiative return fermion-pair events recorded at centre-of-mass energies from 183 GeV to 209 GeV. We find no evidence of a disagreement between the OPAL data and the LEP Energy Workings Group's standard calibration. Including the energy- averaged 11 MeV uncertainty in the standard determination, the beam energy we obtain from the OPAL data is higher than that obtained from the LEP calibration by 0+-34(stat.)+-27(syst.)MeV We present a determination of the LEP beam energy using “radiative return” fermion-pair events recorded at centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 209 GeV. We find no evidence of a disagreement between the OPAL data and the LEP Energy Working Group's standard calibration. Including the energy-averaged 11 MeV uncertainty in the standard determination, the beam energy we obtain from the OPAL data is higher than that obtained from the LEP calibration by 0±34(stat.)±27(syst.)MeV .
Published: 2004

17. Search for anomalous production of di-lepton events with missing transverse momentum in <tex>e(^{+})e(^{-})$</tex> collisions at root √s=183-209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, OPAL Collaboration, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, G.P.SIROLI, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, and L. ZIVKOVIC
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pair production, 0103 physical sciences, Higgs boson, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Event (particle physics), Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton, Boson
Abstract: In total 1317 di-lepton events with significant missing transverse momentum were identified in a total data sample of 680 pb-1 collected at e+e- centre-of-mass energies ranging from 183 GeV to 209 GeV. The number of di-lepton events, the dependence on centre-of-mass energy, and the event properties are consistent with expectations from Standard Model processes, predominantly W+W- production with both W bosons decaying leptonically. This topology is also an experimental signature for the pair production of new particles that decay to a charged lepton accompanied by one or more invisible particles. No evidence for new phenomena is apparent. Upper limits are presented on the production cross-section multiplied by the relevant branching ratio squared for sleptons, leptonically decaying charginos and charged Higgs bosons. Mass limits are also given., Comment: 42 pages, 15 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2004

18. Multi-photon events with large missing energy in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) = 192-209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, Niels T., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schorner-Sadenius, T., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, C.CIOCCA, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, and L. ZIVKOVIC
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Events with a final state consisting of two or more photons and large missing transverse energy have been observed in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies in the range 192 - 209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Cross-section measurements are performed within the kinematic acceptance of the selection and compared with the expectation from the Standard Model process e+e- -> nu nu gamma gamma(gamma). No evidence for new physics contributions to this final state is observed. Upper limits on sigma (e+e- -> XX) BR^2(X -> Ygamma) are derived for the case of stable and invisible Y. In the case of massive Y the combined limits obtained from all the data range from 10 fb to 60 fb, while for the special case of massless Y the range is 20 fb to 40 fb. The limits apply to pair production of excited neutrions (X=nu^*,Y=nu), to neutralino production (X=~chi^0_2, Y=~chi^0_1) and to supersymmetric models in which X=~chi^0_1 and Y=~G is a light gravitino. Events with a final state consisting of two or more photons and large missing transverse energy have been observed in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies in the range 192 - 209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Cross-section measurements are performed within the kinematic acceptance of the selection and compared with the expectation from the Standard Model process e+e- -> nu nu gamma gamma(gamma). No evidence for new physics contributions to this final state is observed. Upper limits on sigma (e+e- -> XX) BR^2(X -> Ygamma) are derived for the case of stable and invisible Y. In the case of massive Y the combined limits obtained from all the data range from 10 fb to 60 fb, while for the special case of massless Y the range is 20 fb to 40 fb. The limits apply to pair production of excited neutrions (X=nu^*,Y=nu), to neutralino production (X=~chi^0_2, Y=~chi^0_1) and to supersymmetric models in which X=~chi^0_1 and Y=~G is a light gravitino. Events with a final state consisting of two or more photons and large missing transverse energy have been observed in e+e− collisions at centre-of-mass energies in the range 192–209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Cross-section measurements are performed within the kinematic acceptance of the selection and compared with the expectations from the Standard Model process e+e−→νν¯γγ(γ) . No evidence for new physics contributions to this final state is observed. Upper limits on σ(e+e−→XX)⋅BR2(X→Yγ) are derived for the case of stable and invisible Y. In the case of massive Y the combined limits obtained from all the data range from 10 to 60 fb, while for the special case of massless Y the range is 20 to 40 fb. The limits apply to pair production of excited neutrinos ( X=ν*,Y=ν ), to neutralino production ( X=χ˜20,Y=χ˜10 ) and to supersymmetric models in which X=χ˜10 and Y=G˜ is a light gravitino.
Published: 2004

19. A study of charm production in beauty decays with the OPAL detector at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, C.A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, G.P.SIROLI, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, and L. ZIVKOVIC
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Using an inclusive method, BR(b -> D\bar{D}X) has been measured in hadronic Z^0 decays with the OPAL detector at LEP. The impact parameter significance of tracks opposite tagged b-jets is used to differentiate b -> D\bar{D}X decays from other decays. Using this result, the average number of charm and anti-charm quarks produced per beauty quark decay, n_c, is determined. Using an inclusive method, BR(b -> D\bar{D}X) has been measured in hadronic Z^0 decays with the OPAL detector at LEP. The impact parameter significance of tracks opposite tagged b-jets is used to differentiate b -> D\bar{D}X decays from other decays. Using this result, the average number of charm and anti-charm quarks produced per beauty quark decay, n_c, is determined.
Published: 2004

20. Flavour independent search for Higgs bosons decaying into hadronic final states in e+e- collisions

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barillari, T., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Ciocca, C., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harel, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, J., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McKenna, J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., ONeale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for the Higgsstrahlung process e+e- -> hZ is described, where the neutral Higgs boson h is assumed to decay into hadronic final states. In order to be sensitive to a broad range of models, the search is performed independent of the flavour content of the Higgs boson decay. The analysis is based on e+e- collision data collected by the OPAL detector at energies between 192 GeV and 209 GeV. The search does not reveal any significant excess over the Standard Model background prediction. Results are combined with previous searches at energies around 91 GeV and at 189 GeV. A limit is set on the product of the cross-section and the hadronic branching ration of the Higgs boson, as a function of the Higgs boson mass. Assuming the hZ coupling predicted by the Standard Model, and a Higgs boson decaying only into hadronic final states, a lower bound of 104 GeV/c2 is set on the mass at the 95% confidence level. A search for the Higgsstrahlung process e+e- -> hZ is described, where the neutral Higgs boson h is assumed to decay into hadronic final states. In order to be sensitive to a broad range of models, the search is performed independent of the flavour content of the Higgs boson decay. The analysis is based on e+e- collision data collected by the OPAL detector at energies between 192 GeV and 209 GeV. The search does not reveal any significant excess over the Standard Model background prediction. Results are combined with previous searches at energies around 91 GeV and at 189 GeV. A limit is set on the product of the cross-section and the hadronic branching ration of the Higgs boson, as a function of the Higgs boson mass. Assuming the hZ coupling predicted by the Standard Model, and a Higgs boson decaying only into hadronic final states, a lower bound of 104 GeV/c2 is set on the mass at the 95% confidence level. A search for the Higgsstrahlung process e+e−→hZ is described, where the neutral Higgs boson h is assumed to decay into hadronic final states. In order to be sensitive to a broad range of models, the search is performed independent of the flavour content of the Higgs boson decay. The analysis is based on e+e− collision data collected by the OPAL detector at energies between 192 and 209 GeV. The search does not reveal any significant excess over the Standard Model background prediction. Results are combined with previous searches at energies around 91 and at 189 GeV. A limit is set on the product of the cross-section and the hadronic branching ratio of the Higgs boson, as a function of the Higgs boson mass. Assuming the hZ coupling predicted by the Standard Model, and a Higgs boson decaying only into hadronic final states, a lower bound of 104 GeV/c2 is set on the mass at the 95% confidence level.
Published: 2003

21. Experimental studies of unbiased gluon jets from $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilations using the jet boost algorithm

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Warsinsky, M., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, P.CAPILUPPI, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, A.M.ROSSI, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, G.P.SIROLI, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, and L. ZIVKOVIC
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present the first experimental results based on the jet boost algorithm, a technique to select unbiased samples of gluon jets in e+e- annihilations, i.e. gluon jets free of biases introduced by event selection or jet finding criteria. Our results are derived from hadronic Z0 decays observed with the OPAL detector at the LEP e+e- collider at CERN. First, we test the boost algorithm through studies with Herwig Monte Carlo events and find that it provides accurate measurements of the charged particle multiplicity distributions of unbiased gluon jets for jet energies larger than about 5 GeV, and of the jet particle energy spectra (fragmentation functions) for jet energies larger than about 14 GeV. Second, we apply the boost algorithm to our data to derive unbiased measurements of the gluon jet multiplicity distribution for energies between about 5 and 18 GeV, and of the gluon jet fragmentation function at 14 and 18 GeV. In conjunction with our earlier results at 40 GeV, we then test QCD calculations for the energy evolution of the distributions, specifically the mean and first two non-trivial normalized factorial moments of the multiplicity distribution, and the fragmentation function. The theoretical results are found to be in global agreement with the data, although the factorial moments are not well described for jet energies below about 14 GeV. We present the first experimental results based on the jet boost algorithm, a technique to select unbiased samples of gluon jets in e+e- annihilations, i.e. gluon jets free of biases introduced by event selection or jet finding criteria. Our results are derived from hadronic Z0 decays observed with the OPAL detector at the LEP e+e- collider at CERN. First, we test the boost algorithm through studies with Herwig Monte Carlo events and find that it provides accurate measurements of the charged particle multiplicity distributions of unbiased gluon jets for jet energies larger than about 5 GeV, and of the jet particle energy spectra (fragmentation functions) for jet energies larger than about 14 GeV. Second, we apply the boost algorithm to our data to derive unbiased measurements of the gluon jet multiplicity distribution for energies between about 5 and 18 GeV, and of the gluon jet fragmentation function at 14 and 18 GeV. In conjunction with our earlier results at 40 GeV, we then test QCD calculations for the energy evolution of the distributions, specifically the mean and first two non-trivial normalized factorial moments of the multiplicity distribution, and the fragmentation function. The theoretical results are found to be in global agreement with the data, although the factorial moments are not well described for jet energies below about 14 GeV. We present the first experimental results based on the jet boost algorithm, a technique to select unbiased samples of gluon jets in e+e- annihilations, i.e. gluon jets free of biases introduced by event selection or jet finding criteria. Our results are derived from hadronic Z0 decays observed with the OPAL detector at the LEP e+e- collider at CERN. First, we test the boost algorithm through studies with Herwig Monte Carlo events and find that it provides accurate measurements of the charged particle multiplicity distributions of unbiased gluon jets for jet energies larger than about 5 GeV, and of the jet particle energy spectra (fragmentation functions) for jet energies larger than about 14 GeV. Second, we apply the boost algorithm to our data to derive unbiased measurements of the gluon jet multiplicity distribution for energies between about 5 and 18 GeV, and of the gluon jet fragmentation function at 14 and 18 GeV. In conjunction with our earlier results at 40 GeV, we then test QCD calculations for the energy evolution of the distributions, specifically the mean and first two non-trivial normalized factorial moments of the multiplicity distribution, and the fragmentation function. The theoretical results are found to be in global agreement with the data, although the factorial moments are not well described for jet energies below about 14 GeV. We present the first experimental results based on the jet boost algorithm, a technique to select unbiased samples of gluon jets in e+e- annihilations, i.e. gluon jets free of biases introduced by event selection or jet finding criteria. Our results are derived from hadronic Z0 decays observed with the OPAL detector at the LEP e+e- collider at CERN. First, we test the boost algorithm through studies with Herwig Monte Carlo events and find that it provides accurate measurements of the charged particle multiplicity distributions of unbiased gluon jets for jet energies larger than about 5 GeV, and of the jet particle energy spectra (fragmentation functions) for jet energies larger than about 14 GeV. Second, we apply the boost algorithm to our data to derive unbiased measurements of the gluon jet multiplicity distribution for energies between about 5 and 18 GeV, and of the gluon jet fragmentation function at 14 and 18 GeV. In conjunction with our earlier results at 40 GeV, we then test QCD calculations for the energy evolution of the distributions, specifically the mean and first two non-trivial normalized factorial moments of the multiplicity distribution, and the fragmentation function. The theoretical results are found to be in global agreement with the data, although the factorial moments are not well described for jet energies below about 14 GeV.
Published: 2003

22. Study of Z Pair Production and Anomalous Couplings in $e^+ e^-$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ between 190 GeV and 209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Warsinsky, M., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, L. ZIVKOVIC, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Particle physics, Annihilation, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hadron, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Observable, State (functional analysis), 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pair production, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Event (particle physics), Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: A study of Z-boson pair production in e+e- annihilation at center-of-mass energies between 190 GeV and 209 GeV is reported. Final states containing only leptons, (l+l-l+l- and l+l-nn), quark and lepton pairs, (qql+l-, qqnn) and only hadrons (qqqq) are considered. In all states with at least one Z boson decaying hadronically, lifetime, lepton and event-shape tags are used to separate bb pairs from qq final state. Limits on anomalous ZZgamma and ZZZ couplings are derived from the measured cross sections and from event kinematics using an optimal observable method. Limits on low scale gravity with large dimensions are derived from the cross sections and their dependence on polar angle., 34 pages, 10 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J
Published: 2003

23. Tests of models of color reconnection and a search for glueballs using gluon jets with a rapidity gap

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, G.P.SIROLI, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, L. ZIVKOVIC, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Monte Carlo method, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Parton, Jet (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Gluon, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Cutoff, Rapidity, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Gluon jets with a mean energy of 22 GeV and purity of 95% are selected from hadronic Z0 decay events produced in e+e- annihilations. A subsample of these jets is identified which exhibits a large gap in the rapidity distribution of particles within the jet. After imposing the requirement of a rapidity gap, the gluon jet purity is 86%. These jets are observed to demonstrate a high degree of sensitivity to the presence of color reconnection, i.e. higher order QCD processes affecting the underlying color structure. We use our data to test three QCD models which include a simulation of color reconnection: one in the Ariadne Monte Carlo, one in the Herwig Monte Carlo, and the other by Rathsman in the Pythia Monte Carlo. We find the Rathsman and Ariadne color reconnection models can describe our gluon jet measurements only if very large values are used for the cutoff parameters which serve to terminate the parton showers, and that the description of inclusive Z0 data is significantly degraded in this case. We conclude that color reconnection as implemented by these two models is disfavored. The signal from the Herwig color reconnection model is less clear and we do not obtain a definite conclusion concerning this model. In a separate study, we follow recent theoretical suggestions and search for glueball-like objects in the leading part of the gluon jets. No clear evidence is observed for these objects., Comment: 42 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2003

24. Search for pair-produced leptoquarks in $e^{+}e^{-}$ interactions at $\sqrt{s}\simeq$ 189 -209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Luminosity (scattering theory), Photon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Branching fraction, Scalar (mathematics), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Fermion, Pair production, Leptoquark, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for pair-produced leptoquarks is performed using e+e- collision events collected by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The data sample corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 596 pb^-1. The leptoquarks are assumed to be produced via couplings to the photon and the Z0. For a given search channel only leptoquark decays involving a single lepton generation are considered. No evidence for leptoquark pair production is observed. Lower limits on masses for scalar and vector leptoquarks are calculated. The results improve most of the LEP limits derived from previous searches for the pair production process by 10-25 GeV, depending on the leptoquark quantum numbers. A search for pair-produced leptoquarks is performed using e+e- collision events collected by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The data sample corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 596 pb^-1. The leptoquarks are assumed to be produced via couplings to the photon and the Z0. For a given search channel only leptoquark decays involving a single lepton generation are considered. No evidence for leptoquark pair production is observed. Lower limits on masses for scalar and vector leptoquarks are calculated. The results improve most of the LEP limits derived from previous searches for the pair production process by 10-25 GeV, depending on the leptoquark quantum numbers.
Published: 2003

25. Test of non-commutative QED in the process $e^{+}e^{-} \to \gamma \gamma$ at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Non-communicative QED would lead to deviations from the Standard Model depending on a new energy scale $\Delta_{NC}$ and a unique direction in space defined by two angles $\eta$ and $\xi$. Here in this analysis $\eta$ is defined as the angle between the unique direction and the rotation axis of the earth. The predictions of such a theory for the process $e^{+} e^{-} \to \gamma \gamma$ are evalued for the specific orientation of the OPAL detector and compared to the measurements. Distributions of the polar and azimuthal scattering angles are used to extract limits on the energy scale $\Delta_{NC}$ depending on the model parameter $\eta$. At the 95% confidence level $\Delta_{NC}$ is found to be larger than 141 GeV for all $\eta$ and $\xi$. It is shown that the time dependence of the total cross-section could be used to determine the model parameter $\xi$ if there were a detectable signal. These are the first limits obtained on non-commutative QED from an $e^{+} e^{-}$ collider experiment. Non-commutative QED would lead to deviations from the Standard Model depending on a new energy scale Λ NC and a unique direction in space defined by two angles η and ξ . In this analysis, η is defined as the angle between the unique direction and the rotation axis of the earth. The predictions of a tree level calculation for the process e + e − → γγ are evaluated for the specific orientation of the OPAL detector and compared to the measurements. Distributions of the polar and azimuthal photon angles are used to extract limits on the energy scale Λ NC depending on the model parameter η . It is shown that the time dependence of the total cross-section could be used to determine the model parameter ξ if there were a detectable signal. This is the first experimental study of non-commutative QED at an e + e − collider. Non-commutative QED would lead to deviations from the Standard Model depending on a new energy scale Lambda_NC and a unique direction in space defined by two angles eta and xi. Here in this analysis eta is defined as the angle between the unique direction and the rotation axis of the earth. The predictions of such a theory for the process e+e- -> gamma gamma are evaluated for the specific orientation of the OPAL detector and compared to the measurements. Distributions of the polar and azimuthal scattering angles are used to extract limits on the energy scale Lambda_NC depending on the model parameter eta. At the 95% confidence level Lambda_NC is found to be larger than 141 GeV for all eta and xi. It is shown that the time dependence of the total cross-section could be used to determine the model parameter xi if there were a detectable signal. These are the first limits obtained on non-commutative QED from an e+e- collider experiment.
Published: 2003

26. Decay-mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Cohen, I., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Klute, M., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharoe-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsnyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, OPAL Collaboration, G., Abbiendi, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, P., Amaral, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, P., Bechtle, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, K., Buesser, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, S., Campana, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, I., Cohen, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, K., Desch, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Elfgren, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, M., Giunta, J., Goldberg, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, H., Jeremie, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, M., Klute, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, L., Kormo, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, D., Krop, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenz, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, J., Schieck, T., Schoerner Sadeniu, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, P., Tran, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, G., Wolf, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, D., Zer Zion, and L., Zivkovic
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Scalar (mathematics), Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Scalar boson, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Recoil, Mass spectrum, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton, Boson
Abstract: This paper describes topological searches for neutral scalar bosons S0 produced in association with a Z0 boson via the Bjorken process e+e- -> S0Z0 at centre-of-mass energies of 91 GeV and 183-209 GeV. These searches are based on studies of the recoil mass spectrum of Z0 -> e+e- and mu+mu- events on a search for S0Z0 with Z0 -> nunu bar and S0 -> e+e- or photons. They cover the decays of the S0 into an arbitrary combination of hadrons, leptons, photons and invisible particles as well as the possibility that it might be stable. No indication for a signal is found in the data and upper limits on the cross section of the Bjorken process are calculated. Cross-section limits are given in terms of a scale factor k with respect to the Standrad Model cross section for the Higgs-strahlung process e+e- -> H0smZ0. These results can be interpreted in general scenarios independently of the decay modes of the S0. The examples considered here are the production of a single new scalar particle with a decay width smaller than the detector mass resolution, and for the first time, two scenarios with continuous mass distributions, due to a single very broad state or several states close in mass., 36 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2003

27. Measurement of charged current triple gauge boson couplings using W pairs at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Groll, M., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, G.W., Wilson, D., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G.ABBIENDI, C.AINSLEY, P.F.°AKESSON, G.ALEXANDER, J.ALLISON, P.AMARAL, G.ANAGNOSTOU, K.J.ANDERSON, S.ARCELLI, S.ASAI, D.AXEN, G.AZUELOS, I.BAILEY, E.BARBERIO, T.BARILLARI, R.J.BARLOW, R.J.BATLEY, P.BECHTLE, T.BEHNKE, K.W.BELL, P.J.BELL, G.BELLA, A.BELLERIVE, G.BENELLI, S.BETHKE, O.BIEBEL, O.BOERIU, P.BOCK, M.BOUTEMEUR, S.BRAIBANT, L.BRIGLIADORI, R.M.BROWN, K.BUESSER, H.J.BURCKHART, S.CAMPANA, R.K.CARNEGIE, A.A.CARTER, J.R.CARTER, C.Y.CHANG, D.G.CHARLTON, A.CSILLING, M.CUFFIANI, S.DADO, A.DE ROECK, E.A.DE WOLF, K.DESCH, B.DIENES, M.DONKERS, J.DUBBERT, E.DUCHOVNI, G.DUCKECK, I.P.DUERDOTH, E.ETZION, F.FABBRI, L.FELD, P.FERRARI, F.FIEDLER, I.FLECK, M.FORD, A.FREY, P.GAGNON, J.W.GARY, G.GAYCKEN, C.GEICH-GIMBEL, G.GIACOMELLI, P.GIACOMELLI, M.GIUNTA, J.GOLDBERG, E.GROSS, J.GRUNHAUS, M.GRUW´E, P.O.G¨UNTHER, A.GUPTA, C.HAJDU, M.HAMANN, G.G.HANSON, A.HAREL, M.HAUSCHILD, C.M.HAWKES, R.HAWKINGS, R.J.HEMINGWAY, G.HERTEN, R.D.HEUER, J.C.HILL, K.HOFFMAN, D.HORV´ATH, P. IGO-KEMENES, K. ISHII, H. JEREMIE, P. JOVANOVIC, T.R. JUNK, N.KANAYA, J.KANZAKI, D.KARLEN, K.KAWAGOE, T.KAWAMOTO, R.K.KEELER, R.G.KELLOGG, B.W.KENNEDY, S.KLUTH, T.KOBAYASHI, M.KOBEL, S.KOMAMIYA, T.KR¨AMER, P.KRIEGER, J. VON KROGH, K.KRUGER, T.KUHL, M.KUPPER, G.D. LAFFERTY, H. LANDSMAN, D. LANSKE, J.G. LAYTER, D. LELLOUCH, J. LETTSO, L. LEVINSON, J. LILLICH, S.L. LLOYD, F.K. LOEBINGER, J. LU, A. LUDWIG, J. LUDWIG, W.MADER, S.MARCELLINI, A.J.MARTIN, G.MASETTI, T.MASHIMO, P.M¨ATTIGM, J.MCKENNA, R.A.MCPHERSON, F.MEIJERS, W.MENGES, F.S.MERRITT, H.MES, N.MEYER, A.MICHELINI, S.MIHARA, G.MIKENBERG, D.J.MILLER, S.MOED, W.MOHR, T.MORI, A.MUTTER, K.NAGAI, I.NAKAMURA, H.NANJO, H.A.NEAL, R.NISIUS, S.W.O’NEALE, A.OH, M.J.OREGLIA, S.ORITO, C.PAHL, G.P´ASZTOR, J.R.PATER, J.E.PILCHER, J.PINFOLD, D.E.PLANE, B.POLI, O.POOTH, M.PRZYBYCIE´N, A.QUADT, K.RABBERTZ, C.REMBSER, P.RENKEL, J.M.RONEY, Y.ROZEN, K.RUNGE, K. SACHS, T. SAEKI, E.K.G. SARKISYAN, A.D. SCHAILE, O. SCHAILE, P. SCHARFF-HANSEN, J. SCHIECK, T. SCH¨ORNER-SADENIUS, M. SCHR¨ODER, M. SCHUMACHER, W.G. SCOTT, R. SEUSTER, T.G. SHEARS, B.C. SHEN, P. SHERWOOD, G.P.SIROLI, A. SKUJA, A.M. SMITH, R. SOBIE, S. S¨OLDNER-REMBOLD, F. SPANO, A. STAHL, D. STROM, R. STR¨OHMER, S.TAREM, M.TASEVSKY, R.TEUSCHER, M.A.THOMSON, E.TORRENCE, D.TOYA, P.TRAN, I.TRIGGER, Z.TR´OCS´ANYI, E.TSUR, M.F.TURNER-WATSON, I.UEDA, B.UJV´ARI, C.F.VOLLMER, P.VANNEREM, R.V´ERTESI, M.VERZOCCHI, H.VOSS, J.VOSSEBELD, C.P.WARD, D.R.WARD, P.M.WATKINS, A.T.WATSON, N.K.WATSON, P.S.WELLS, T.WENGLER, N.WERMES, G.W.WILSON, J.A.WILSON, G.WOLF, T.R.WYATT, S.YAMASHITA, D. ZER-ZION, and L. ZIVKOVIC
Subjects: Physics, Coupling, Particle physics, Gauge boson, Luminosity (scattering theory), Photon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Inverse, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Charged current
Abstract: Triple gauge boson couplings are measured from W-pair and single photon events recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at center-of-mass energies between 183 - 209 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 680 inverse picobarns. Only CP-conserving couplings are considered and SU(2)xU(1) relations between the WWZ and the WWgamma couolings are used, resulting in four independent couplings. Each coupling is determined in a separate fit, assuming the other couplings to take their Standard Model values. Fits are also done allowing some of the couplings to vary simultaneously. The results are compared with the Standard Model predictions., Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2003
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28. Measurement of isolated prompt photon production in photon-photon collisions at root s(ee)=183-209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Horvath, D., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Nanjo, H., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Vertesi, R., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Photon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pseudorapidity, 0103 physical sciences, Transverse momentum, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: For the first time at LEP the production of prompt photons is studied in the collisions of quasi-real photons using the OPAL data taken at e+e- centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV. The total inclusive production cross-section for isolated prompt photons in the kinematic range of photon transverse momentum larger than 3.0 GeV and absolute photon pseudorapidity less than 1 is determined to be 0.32 +- 0.04 (stat) +- 0.04 (sys) pb. Differential cross-sections are compared to the predictions of a next-to-leading-order (NLO) calculation., Comment: 28 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J C
Published: 2003

29. A Measurement of Semileptonic B Decays to Narrow Orbitally-Excited Charm Mesons

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, Decay chain, Charm (quantum number), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The decay chain b -> Bbar -> D^{**0} l nu X, D^{**0} -> D^{*+} pi^-, D^{*+} -> D^0 pi^+, D^0 ->(Kpi or K3pi) is identified in a sample of 3.9 million hadronic Z decays collected with the OPAL detector at LEP. The branching ratio BR (b -> Bbar) x BR (Bbar -> D^0_1 l nu X) x BR (D^0_1 -> D^{*+} pi^-) is measured to be (2.64 +- 0.79 (stat) +- 0.39 (syst)) X 10^-3 for the J^P = 1^+ (D^0_1) state. For decays into the J^P = 2^+ (D^{*0}_2) state, an upper limit of 1.4 X 10^-3 is placed on the branching ratio at the 95% confidence level., 20 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2002

30. Di-Jet Production in Photon-Photon colisions at $\sqrt{s_{ee}}$ from 189 to 209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Di-jet producion is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons at e+e- centre- of-mass energies sqrt(s)ee from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP. The data were collected with the OPAL detector. Jets are reconstructed using an inclusive k_t clustering algorithm for all cross-section measurements presented. A cone jet algorithm is used in addition to study the different structure of the jets resulting from either of the algorithms. The inclusive di-jet cross-section is measured as a function of the mean transverse energy Etm(jet) of the two leading jets, and as a functiuon of the estimated fraction of the photon momentum carried by the parton entering the hard sub-process, xg, for different regions of Etm (jet). Angular distribution in di-jet events are measured and used to demonstrate the dominance of quark and gluon initiated processes in different regions of phase space. Furthermore the inclusive di-jet cross-section as a function of |eta(jet)| and |delta eta (jet)| is presented where eta(jet) is the jet pseudo-rapidity. Different regions of the xg+ -xg- -space are explored to study and control the influence of an underlying event. The results are compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations and to the predictions of the leading order Monte Carlo generator PYTHIA. Di-jet producion is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons at e+e- centre- of-mass energies sqrt(s)ee from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP. The data were collected with the OPAL detector. Jets are reconstructed using an inclusive k_t clustering algorithm for all cross-section measurements presented. A cone jet algorithm is used in addition to study the different structure of the jets resulting from either of the algorithms. The inclusive di-jet cross-section is measured as a function of the mean transverse energy Etm(jet) of the two leading jets, and as a functiuon of the estimated fraction of the photon momentum carried by the parton entering the hard sub-process, xg, for different regions of Etm (jet). Angular distribution in di-jet events are measured and used to demonstrate the dominance of quark and gluon initiated processes in different regions of phase space. Furthermore the inclusive di-jet cross-section as a function of |eta(jet)| and |delta eta (jet)| is presented where eta(jet) is the jet pseudo-rapidity. Different regions of the xg+ -xg- -space are explored to study and control the influence of an underlying event. The results are compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations and to the predictions of the leading order Monte Carlo generator PYTHIA. Di-jet producion is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons at e+e- centre- of-mass energies sqrt(s)ee from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP. The data were collected with the OPAL detector. Jets are reconstructed using an inclusive k_t clustering algorithm for all cross-section measurements presented. A cone jet algorithm is used in addition to study the different structure of the jets resulting from either of the algorithms. The inclusive di-jet cross-section is measured as a function of the mean transverse energy Etm(jet) of the two leading jets, and as a functiuon of the estimated fraction of the photon momentum carried by the parton entering the hard sub-process, xg, for different regions of Etm (jet). Angular distribution in di-jet events are measured and used to demonstrate the dominance of quark and gluon initiated processes in different regions of phase space. Furthermore the inclusive di-jet cross-section as a function of |eta(jet)| and |delta eta (jet)| is presented where eta(jet) is the jet pseudo-rapidity. Different regions of the xg+ -xg- -space are explored to study and control the influence of an underlying event. The results are compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations and to the predictions of the leading order Monte Carlo generator PYTHIA.
Published: 2002

31. A Measurement of the $\tau^{-}\to \mu^{-}\overline{\nu}_{\mu}\nu_{\tau}$ Branching Ratio

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Lettso, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The tau -> mu nu nu branching ratio has been measured using data collected from 1990 to 1995 by the OPAL detector at the LEP collider. The resulting value of B(tau -> mu nu nu) = 0.1734 +- 0.0009(stat) +- 0.0006(syst) has been used in conjunction with other OPAL measurements to test lepton universality, yielding the coupling constant ratios gmu/ge=1.0005+-0.0044 and gt/ge=1.0031+-0.0048, in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction of unity. A value for the Michel parameter eta = 0.004 +- 0.037 has also been determined and used to find a limit for the mass of the charged Higgs boson mH+- > 1.25 tan beta, in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The tau -> mu nu nu branching ratio has been measured using data collected from 1990 to 1995 by the OPAL detector at the LEP collider. The resulting value of B(tau -> mu nu nu) = 0.1734 +- 0.0009(stat) +- 0.0006(syst) has been used in conjunction with other OPAL measurements to test lepton universality, yielding the coupling constant ratios gmu/ge=1.0005+-0.0044 and gt/ge=1.0031+-0.0048, in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction of unity. A value for the Michel parameter eta = 0.004 +- 0.037 has also been determined and used to find a limit for the mass of the charged Higgs boson mH+- > 1.25 tan beta, in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The τ − →μ − ν ̄ μ ν τ branching ratio has been measured using data collected from 1990 to 1995 by the OPAL detector at the LEP collider. The resulting value of B (τ − →μ − ν ̄ μ ν τ )=0.1734±0.0009( stat )±0.0006( syst ) has been used in conjunction with other OPAL measurements to test lepton universality, yielding the coupling constant ratios g μ / g e =1.0005±0.0044 and g τ / g e =1.0031±0.0048, in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction of unity. A value for the Michel parameter η =0.004±0.037 has also been determined and used to find a limit for the mass of the charged Higgs boson, m H ± >1.28tan β , in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
Published: 2002

32. Multi-Photon Production in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) = 181 - 209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., and Zivkovic, Lidija
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Luminosity (scattering theory), Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Resonance (particle physics), High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, Mass spectrum, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The process e+e- -> gamma gamma (gamma) is studied using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP between the years 1997 and 2000. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 672.3pb-1 at centre-of-mass energies lying between 181 GeV and 209 GeV. Total and differential cross- sections are determined and found to be good agreement with the predictions of QED. Fits to the observed angular distributions are used to set limits on parameters from several models of physics beyond the Standard Model such as cut-off parameters, contact interactions of the type e+e-gamma gamma, gravity in extra spatial dimensions and excited electrons. In events with three photons in the final state the mass spectrum of photon pairs is investigated. No narrow resonance X-> gamma gamma is found and limits are placed on the product of the Xgamma production cross-section and branching ratio., 30 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2002

33. Search for a low mass CP-odd Higgs boson in e+e- collisions with the OPAL detector at LEP2

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, OPAL Collaboration, G., Abbiendi, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, P., Amaral, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, P., Bechtle, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, K., Buesser, H. J., Burckhart, S., Campana, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, K., Desch, B., Diene, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Elfgren, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, M., Giunta, J., Goldberg, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, H., Jeremie, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, S., Komamiya, L., Kormo, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, K., Kruger, M., Kupper, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenz, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, J., Schieck, T., Schorner Sadeniu, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, P., Tran, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, G., Wolf, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, D., Zer Zion, and L., Zivkovic
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scalar (mathematics), Detector, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 3. Good health, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Pseudoscalar, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Higgs boson, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Low Mass, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We have analysed the data collected by OPAL at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV searching for Higgs boson candidates from the process e+e- -> h0Z0 followed by the decay of h0 -> A0A0 where A0 is the CP-odd Higgs boson. The search is done in the region where the A0 mass, mA, is below the production threshold for bbbar, and the CP-even Higgs boson mass mh is within the range 45-86 GeV/c^2. In this kinematic range, the decay of h0 -> A0A0 may be dominant and previous Higgs boson searches have very small sensitivities. This search can be interpreted within any model that predicts the existence of at least one scalar and one pseudoscalar Higgs boson. No excess of events is observed above the expected Standard Model backgrounds. Model-independent limits on the cross-section for the process e+e- -> h0Z0 are derived assuming 100% decays of the h0 into A0A0 and 100% decays of the A0A0 into each of the following final states: ccbarccbar, gggg, tau+tau-tau+tau-, ccbargg ggtau+tau- and ccbartau+tau-. The results are also interpreted in the CP-conserving no-mixing MSSM scenario, where the region 45, 26 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J.C
Published: 2002

34. Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in $e^+ e^-$ collisions using the Fully Leptonic Channel

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Cohen, I., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., OPAL Collaboration, G., Abbiendi, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, P., Bechtle, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, K., Buesser, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, S., Campana, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, I., Cohen, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, K., Desch, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, M., Giunta, J., Goldberg, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, L., Kormo, R. V., Kowalewskil, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, D., Krop, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, C., Littlewood, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcphersonl, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahrl, E. K., G., A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Remboldd, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, P., Tran, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Systematic error, Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Monte Carlo method, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Kinematics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Energy (signal processing), Particle Physics - Experiment, Communication channel, Lepton
Abstract: A novel method of determining the mass of the W boson in the W+W- -> lnu lnu channel is presented and applied to 667pb^-1 of data recorded at the center-of- mass energies in the range 183-207 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP. The Measured energies of charged leptons and the results of a new procedure based on an approximate kinematic reconstruction of the events are combined to give: Mw=80.41+-0.41+-0.13 GeV, when the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The systematic error is dominated by the uncertainty on the lepton energy, which is calibrated using data, and the parameterization of the variables used in the fitting, which is obtained using Monte Carlo events. Both of these are limited by statistics., 23 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to Euro. Phys. Journal C
Published: 2002

35. Search for Yukawa production of a light neutral Higgs Boson at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., OPAL Collaboration, G., Abbiendi, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, P., Bechtle, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, J., Bohme, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, S., Campana, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, J., Couchman, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, M., Giunta, J., Goldberg, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiva, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, D., Krop, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, I., Lawson, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, C., Littlewood, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, L., Stumpf, B., Surrow, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Particle physics, Muon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Anomalous magnetic dipole moment, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Yukawa potential, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Higgs boson, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Boson
Abstract: Within a Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) a search for a light Higgs boson in the mass range of 4-12 GeV has been performed in the Yukawa process e+e- -> b bbar A/h -> b bbar tau+tau-, using the data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP between 1992 and 1995 in e+e- collisions at about 91 GeV centre-of-mass energy. A likelihood selection is applied to separate background and signal. The number of observed events is in good agreement with the expected background. Within a CP-conserving 2HDM type II model the cross-section for Yukawa production depends on xiAd = |tan beta| and xihd = |sin alpha/cos beta| for the production of the CP-odd A and the CP-even h, respectively, where tan beta is the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs doublets and alpha is the mixing angle between the neutral CP-even Higgs bosons. From our data 95% C.L. upper limits are derived for xiAd within the range of 8.5 to 13.6 and for xihd between 8.2 to 13.7, depending on the mass of the Higgs boson, assuming a branching fraction into tau+tau- of 100%. An interpretation of the limits within a 2HDM type II model with Standard Model particle content is given. These results impose constraints on several models that have been proposed to explain the recent BNL measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment., 24 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Euro. Phys. J. C
Published: 2002

36. Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the OPAL Detector at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, OPAL Collaboration, G., Abbiendi, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, P., Amaral, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, P., Bechtle, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bethke, O., Biebell, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriun, P., Bock, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, K., Buesser, H. J., Burckhart, S., Campana, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, K., Desch, B., Diene, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Elfgren, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, M., Giunta, J., Goldberg, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, H., Jeremie, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, S., Komamiya, L., Kormo, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, D., Krop, K., Kruger, M., Kupper, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, J., Schieck, T., Schorner Sadeniu, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, A., Stah, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, P., Tran, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, G., Wolf, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, D., Zer Zion, and L., Zivkovic
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Detector, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Upper and lower bounds, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Consistency (statistics), Higgs boson, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper summarises the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV performed by the OPAL Collaboration at LEP. The consistency of the data with the background hypothesis and various Higgs boson mass hypotheses is examined. No indication of a signal is found in the data and a lower bound of 112.7GeV/C^2 is obtained on the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the 95% CL., Comment: 51 pages, 21 figures
Published: 2002
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37. Measurement of the b quark forward-backward asymmetry around the Z0 peak using an inclusive tag

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Amaral, P., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Buesser, K., Burckhart, H.J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Elfgren, E., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jeremie, H., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kruger, K., Kupper, M., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas, Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Tran, P., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zer-Zion, D., Zivkovic, Lidija, G., Abbiendi, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, P., Amaral, G., Anagnostou, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, R. J., Batley, P., Bechtle, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, P. J., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, K., Buesser, H. J., Burckhart, S., Campana, R. K., Carnegie, B., Caron, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., De Roeck, E. A., De, K., Desch, B., Diene, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, E., Elfgren, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, M., Giunta, J., Goldberg, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, A., Gupta, C., Hajdu, M., Hamann, G. G., Hanson, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, M., Hauschild, J., Hauschildt, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, D., Horvath, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, H., Jeremie, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, S., Komamiya, L., Korma, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kramer, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, D., Krop, K., Kruger, M., Kupper, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, J., Lillich, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Masetti, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, S., Moed, W., Mohr, T., Mori, A., Mutter, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, C., Pahl, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, K., Rabbertz, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, J., Schieck, T., Schorner Sadeniu, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, F., Spano, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, S., Tarem, M., Tasevsky, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, D., Toya, P., Tran, T., Trefzger, A., Tricoli, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Ujvari, B., Vachon, C. F., Vollmer, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, G., Wolf, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, D., Zer Zion, L., Zivkovic, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Particle physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Jet (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, Bottom quark, Asymmetry, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Vertex (curve), High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, media_common, Lepton
Abstract: The b quark forward-backward asymmetry has been measured using hadronic Z0 decays collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP. Z0 -> bbbar decays were selected using a combination of secondary vertex and lepton tags, and the sign of the b quark charge was determined using an inclusive tag based on jet, vertex and kaon charges. The results, corrected to the quark level, are: A^b_FB = 0.0582 +- 0.0153 +- 0.0012 at sqrt(s) = 89.50 GeV A^b_FB = 0.0977 +- 0.0036 +- 0.0018 at sqrt(s) = 91.26 GeV A^b_FB = 0.1221 +- 0.0123 +- 0.0025 at sqrt(s) = 92.91 GeV where the first error is statistical and the second systematic in each case. Within the framework of the Standard Model, the result is interpreted as a measurement of the effective weak mixing angle for electrons of sin2theta_W^eff,e = 0.23205 +- 0.00068., 23 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2002
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38. Search for Leptoquarks in Electron-Photon Scattering at $\sqrt{s_{ee}}$ up to 209 GeV at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kormos, Laura L., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, G., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Searches for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks, and for squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models with the direct decay of the squark into Standard Model particles, have been performed using e+e- collisions collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at e+e- centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. No excess of events is found over the expectation from Standard Model background processes. Limits are computed on the leptoquark couplings for different values of the branching ratio to electron-quark final states. Searches for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks, and for squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models with the direct decay of the squark into Standard Model particles, have been performed using e + e − collisions collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at e + e − centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. No excess of events is found over the expectation from Standard Model background processes. Limits are computed on the leptoquark couplings for different values of the branching ratio to electron–quark final states. Searches for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks, and for squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models with the direct decay of the squark into Standard Model particles, have been performed using e+e- collisions collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at e+e- centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. No excess of events is found over the expectation from Standard Model background processes. Limits are computed on the leptoquark couplings for different values of the branching ratio to electron-quark final states.
Published: 2001

39. Search for Lepton Flavour Violation in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 189 - 209 GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P.F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Anagnostou, G, Anderson, K.J, Arcelli, S, Asai, S, Axen, D, Azuelos, G, Bailey, I, Barberio, E, Barlow, R.J, Batley, R.J, Behnke, T, Bell, K.W, Bell, P.J, Bella, G, Bellerive, A, Bethke, S, Biebel, O, Bloodworth, I.J, Boeriu, O, Bock, P, Böhme, J, Bonacorsi, D, Boutemeur, M, Braibant, S, Brigliadori, L, Brown, R.M, Burckhart, H.J, Cammin, J, Carnegie, R.K, Caron, B, Carter, A.A, Carter, J.R, Chang, C.Y, Charlton, D.G, Clarke, P.E.L, Clay, E, Cohen, I, Couchman, J, Csilling, A, Cuffiani, M, Dado, S, Dallavalle, G.M, Dallison, S, De Roeck, A, De Wolf, E.A, Dervan, P, Desch, K, Dienes, B, Dixit, M.S, Donkers, M, Dubbert, J, Duchovni, E, Duckeck, G, Duerdoth, I.P, Etzion, E, Fabbri, F, Feld, L, Ferrari, P, Fiedler, F, Fleck, I, Ford, M, Frey, A, Fürtjes, A, Futyan, D.I, Gagnon, P, Gary, J.W, Gaycken, G, Geich-Gimbel, C, Giacomelli, G, Giacomelli, P, Glenzinski, D, Goldberg, J, Graham, K, Gross, E, Grunhaus, J, Gruwé, M, Günther, P.O, Gupta, A, Hajdu, C, Hamann, M, Hanson, G.G, Harder, K, Harel, A, Harin-Dirac, M, Hauschild, M, Hauschildt, J, Hawkes, C.M, Hawkings, R, Hemingway, R.J, Hensel, C, Herten, G, Heuer, R.D, Hill, J.C, Hoffman, K, Homer, R.J, Horváth, D, Hossain, K.R, Howard, R, Hüntemeyer, P, Igo-Kemenes, P, Ishii, K, Jawahery, A, Jeremie, H, Jones, C.R, Jovanovic, P, Junk, T.R, Kanaya, N, Kanzaki, J, Karapetian, G, Karlen, D, Kartvelishvili, V, Kawagoe, K, Kawamoto, T, Keeler, R.K, Kellogg, R.G, Kennedy, B.W, Kim, D.H, Klein, K, Klier, A, Kluth, S, Kobayashi, T, Kobel, M, Kokott, T.P, Komamiya, S, Kowalewski, R.V, Krämer, T, Kress, T, Krieger, P, von Krogh, J, Krop, D, Kuhl, T, Kupper, M, Kyberd, P, Lafferty, G.D, Landsman, H, Lanske, D, Lawson, I, Layter, J.G, Leins, A, Lellouch, D, Letts, J, Levinson, L, Lillich, J, Littlewood, C, Lloyd, S.L, Loebinger, F.K, Long, G.D, Losty, M.J, Lu, J, Ludwig, J, Macchiolo, A, Macpherson, A, Mader, W, Marcellini, S, Marchant, T.E, Martin, A.J, Martin, J.P, Martinez, G, Masetti, G, Mashimo, T, Mättig, P, McDonald, W.J, McKenna, J, McMahon, T.J, McPherson, R.A, Meijers, F, Mendez-Lorenzo, P, Menges, W, Merritt, F.S, Mes, H, Michelini, A, Mihara, S, Mikenberg, G, Miller, D.J, Moed, S, Mohr, W, Mori, T, Mutter, A, Nagai, K, Nakamura, I, Neal, H.A, Nisius, R, O'Neale, S.W, Oh, A, Okpara, A, Oreglia, M.J, Orito, S, Pahl, C, Pásztor, G, Pater, J.R, Patrick, G.N, Pilcher, J.E, Pinfold, J, Plane, D.E, Poli, B, Polok, J, Pooth, O, Quadt, A, Rabbertz, K, Rembser, C, Renkel, P, Rick, H, Rodning, N, Roney, J.M, Rosati, S, Roscoe, K, Rozen, Y, Runge, K, Rust, D.R, Sachs, K, Saeki, T, Sahr, O, Sarkisyan, E.K.G, Sbarra, C, Schaile, A.D, Schaile, O, Scharff-Hansen, P, Schröder, M, Schumacher, M, Schwick, C, Scott, W.G, Seuster, R, Shears, T.G, Shen, B.C, Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H, Sherwood, P, Skuja, A, Smith, A.M, Snow, G.A, Sobie, R, Söldner-Rembold, S, Spagnolo, S, Spano, F, Sproston, M, Stahl, A, Stephens, K, Strom, D, Ströhmer, R, Stumpf, L, Surrow, B, Tarem, S, Tasevsky, M, Taylor, R.J, Teuscher, R, Thomas, J, Thomson, M.A, Torrence, E, Toya, D, Trefzger, T, Tricoli, A, Trigger, I, Trócsányi, Z, Tsur, E, Turner-Watson, M.F, Ueda, I, Ujvári, B, Vachon, B, Vollmer, C.F, Vannerem, P, Verzocchi, M, Voss, H, Vossebeld, J, Waller, D, Ward, C.P, Ward, D.R, Watkins, P.M, Watson, A.T, Watson, N.K, Wells, P.S, Wengler, T, Wermes, N, Wetterling, D, Wilson, G.W, Wilson, J.A, Wyatt, T.R, Yamashita, S, Zacek, V, Zer-Zion, D, and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Monte Carlo method, Flavour, FOS: Physical sciences, Sigma, Function (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Event (particle physics), Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: We search for lepton flavour violating events (e mu, e tau and mu tau) that could be directly produced in e+e- annihilations, using the full available data sample collected with the OPAL detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV and 209 GeV. In general, the Standard Model expectations describe the data well for all the channels and at each sqrt(s). A single e mu event is observed where according to our Monte Carlo simulations only 0.019 events are expected from Standard Model processes. We obtain the first limits on the cross-sections sigma(e+e- -> e mu, e tau and mu tau) as a function of sqrt(s) at LEP2 energies., 15 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by Physics Letters B
Published: 2001

40. Measurement of the Branching Ratio for the Process $b \to \tau^{-}\overline{\nu}_{\tau}X$

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Åkesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, J., Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Behnke, T., Bell, K.W., Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Böhme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, R.M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, D.G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.M., Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Fürtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwé, M., Günther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, K., Homer, R.J., Horváth, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Hüntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, R.V., Krämer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mättig, P., McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pásztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, D.E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, C., Schröder, M., Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, D., Ströhmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trócsányi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvári, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., D.Waller, C.P.Ward, D.R.Ward, P.M.Watkins, A.T.Watson, N.K.Watson, P.S.Wells, T.Wengler, N.Wermes, D.Wetterling, G.W.Wilson, J.A.Wilson, T.R.Wyatt, Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The inclusive branching ratio for the process b -> tau nu X has been measured using hadronic Z decays collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP in the years 1992-2000. The result is: BR(b -> tau nu X) = (2.78 +/- 0.18 +/- 0.51)% This measurement is consistent with the Standard Model expectation and puts a constraint of tan(beta) / M(H+/-) < 0.53 GeV-1 at the 95% confidence level on Type II Two Higgs Doublet Models. The inclusive branching ratio for the process b →τ − ν ̄ τ X has been measured using hadronic Z decays collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP in the years 1992–2000. The result is: BR ( b →τ − ν ̄ τ X )=(2.78±0.18±0.51)%. This measurement is consistent with the Standard Model expectation and puts a constraint of tan β / M H ± tau nu X has been measured using hadronic Z decays collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP in the years 1992-2000. The result is: BR(b -> tau nu X) = (2.78 +/- 0.18 +/- 0.51)% This measurement is consistent with the Standard Model expectation and puts a constraint of tan(beta) / M(H+/-) < 0.53 GeV-1 at the 95% confidence level on Type II Two Higgs Doublet Models.
Published: 2001

41. Measurement of |$V_{ub}$| using b hadron semileptonic decays

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, R.J., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The magnitude of the CKM matrix element Vub is determined by measuring the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of beauty hadrons at OPAL based on b -> Xu l nu event topology and kinematics. This analysis uses OPAL data collected between 1991 and 1995, which correspond to about four million hadronic Z decays. We measure Br(b -> Xu l) to be (1.63 +/- 0.53 +0.55/-0.62) x 10^(-3). The first uncertainty is the statistical error and the second is the systematic error. From this analysis, Vub is determined to be: |Vub| = (4.00 +/- 0.65(stat) +0.67/-0.76(sys) +/- 0.19(HQE)) x 10^(-3). The last error represents the theoretical uncertainties related to the extraction of |Vub| from Br(b -> Xu l) using the Heavy Quark Expansion. The magnitude of the CKM matrix element Vub is determined by measuring the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of beauty hadrons at OPAL based on b -> Xu l nu event topology and kinematics. This analysis uses OPAL data collected between 1991 and 1995, which correspond to about four million hadronic Z decays. We measure Br(b -> Xu l) to be (1.63 +/- 0.53 +0.55/-0.62) x 10^(-3). The first uncertainty is the statistical error and the second is the systematic error. From this analysis, Vub is determined to be: |Vub| = (4.00 +/- 0.65(stat) +0.67/-0.76(sys) +/- 0.19(HQE)) x 10^(-3). The last error represents the theoretical uncertainties related to the extraction of |Vub| from Br(b -> Xu l) using the Heavy Quark Expansion.
Published: 2001

42. Search for Single Leptoquark and Squark Production in Electron-Photon Scattering at sqrt(s_ee) = 189 GeV at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, R.J., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: Physics, Quark, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Scalar (mathematics), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Yukawa potential, FOS: Physical sciences, Supersymmetry, Fermion, Lambda, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Leptoquark, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks (LQ) as well as for squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models has been performed using e+e- collisions collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at an e+e- centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s_ee) of 189 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 160 pb-1. The dominant process for this search is e q -> LQ/squark -> e q, nu q, where a photon, which has been radiated by one of the beam electrons, serves as a source of quarks. The numbers of selected events found in the two decay channels are in agreement with the expectations from Standard Model processes. This result allows to set lower limits at the 95% confidence level on the mass of first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks, and of squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models. For Yukawa couplings lambda to fermions larger than sqrt{4 pi alpha_em}, the mass limits range from 121 GeV/c^2 to 175 GeV/c^2 (149 GeV/c^2 to 188 GeV/c^2) depending on the branching ratio beta of the scalar (vector) leptoquark state. Furthermore, limits are set on the Yukawa couplings lambda for leptoquarks and lambda'_1jk for squarks, and on beta as a function of the scalar leptoquark/squark mass., 27 pages, 12 figures, Submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C
Published: 2001

43. Particle multiplicity of unbiased gluon jets from e+e- three-jet events

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Barberio, E., Barlow, R.J., Batley, R.J., Bechtle, P., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bell, P.J., Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Campana, S., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, John William, Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giunta, Marina, Goldberg, J., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hamann, M., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hauschildt, J., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Masetti, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.J., McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Mori, T., Mutter, A., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Tricoli, A., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., and OPAL Collaboration
Subjects: Quark, Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Lattice, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Multiplicity (mathematics), Jet (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, Charged particle, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Gluon, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The charged particle multiplicities of two- and three-jet events from the reaction e+e- -> Z0 -> hadrons are measured for Z0 decays to light quark (uds) flavors. Using recent theoretical expressions to account for biases from event selection, results corresponding to unbiased gluon jets are extracted over a range of jet energies from about 11 to 30 GeV. We find consistency between these results and direct measurements of unbiased gluon jet multiplicity from upsilon and Z0 decays. The unbiased gluon jet data including the direct measurements are compared to corresponding results for quark jets. We perform fits based on analytic expressions for particle multiplicity in jets to determine the ratio r = Ng/Nq of multiplicities between gluon and quark jets as a function of energy. We also determine the ratio of slopes, r(1) = (dNg/dy)/(dNq/dy), and of curvatures, r(2) = (d2Ng/dy2)/(d2Nq/dy2), where y specifies the energy scale. At 30 GeV, we find r = 1.422 +/- 0.051, r(1) = 1.761 +/- 0.071 and r(2) = 1.98 +/- 0.13, where the uncertainties are the statistical and systematic terms added in quadrature. These results are in general agreement with theoretical predictions. In addition, we use the measurements of the energy dependence of Ng and Nq to determine an effective value of the ratio of QCD color factors, CA/CF. Our result, CA/CF = 2.23 +/- 0.14 (total), is consistent with the QCD value of 2.25., 34 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2001
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44. Production rate of $b\overline{b}$ quark pairs from gluons and $b\overline{b}b\overline{b}$ events in hadronic Z decays

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, S., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The rates are measured per hadronic Z decay for gluon splitting to bb(bar) quark pairs, g_bb, and of events containing two bb(bar) quark pairs, g_4b, using a sample of four-jet events selected from data collected with the OPAL detector. Events with an enhanced signal of gluon splitting to bb(bar) quarks are selected if two of the jets are close in phase-space and contain detached secondary vertices. For the event sample containing two bb(bar) quark pairs, three of the four jets are required to have a significantly detached secondary vertex. Information from the event topology is combined in a likelihood fit to extract the values of g_bb and g_4b, namely g_bb = (3.07 +- 0.53(stat) +- 0.97(syst))x10^-3 g_4b = (0.36 +- 0.17(stat) +- 0.27(syst))x10^-3 The rates are measured per hadronic Z decay for gluon splitting to bb(bar) quark pairs, g_bb, and of events containing two bb(bar) quark pairs, g_4b, using a sample of four-jet events selected from data collected with the OPAL detector. Events with an enhanced signal of gluon splitting to bb(bar) quarks are selected if two of the jets are close in phase-space and contain detached secondary vertices. For the event sample containing two bb(bar) quark pairs, three of the four jets are required to have a significantly detached secondary vertex. Information from the event topology is combined in a likelihood fit to extract the values of g_bb and g_4b, namely g_bb = (3.07 +- 0.53(stat) +- 0.97(syst))x10^-3 g_4b = (0.36 +- 0.17(stat) +- 0.27(syst))x10^-3
Published: 2000

45. Measurement of W boson polarisations and CP-violating triple gauge couplings from $W^{+}W^{-}$ production at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., de Wolf, E., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vachon, B., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., G., Abbiendi, K., Ackerstaff, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S. F., Ashby, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, A. H., Ball, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, S., Baumann, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, J., Bohme, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, P., Bright Thoma, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, P., Capiluppi, R. K., Carnegie, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, O. C., Cooke, J., Couchman, C., Couyoumtzeli, R. L., Coxe, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., de Roeck, E., de Wolf, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M. S., Dixit, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, P. G., Estabrook, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, N., Fanti, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, D., Glenzinski, J., Goldberg, C., Grandi, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, C., Hajdu, G. G., Hanson, M., Hansroul, M., Hapke, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, A., Hauke, M., Hauschild, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, A., Hocker, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, A. K., Honma, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, F. R., Jacob, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komaniya, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, L., Levinson, R., Liebisch, J., Lillich, B., List, C., Littlewood, A. W., Lloyd, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, G. D., Long, M. J., Losty, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, W., Mohr, A., Montanari, T., Mori, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, F. G., Oakham, F., Odorici, H. O., Ogren, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J., Patt, P., Pfeifenschneider, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, A. M., Rossi, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, O., Runolfssou, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., C., Sbarra, A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, M., Schroder, T., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G. P., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, K., Stoll, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, L., Stumpf, B., Surrow, S. D., Talbot, S., Tarem, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M., Thiergen, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, S., Tower, D., Toya, T., Trefzger, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, B., Vachon, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, J. S., White, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Coupling, Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Sigma, Gauge (firearms), Lambda, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Luminosity, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pair production, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Boson
Abstract: Measurements are presented of the polarisation of W+W- boson pairs produced in e+e- collisions, and of CP-violating WWZ and WWGamma trilinear gauge couplings. The data were recorded by the OPAL experiment at LEP during 1998, where a total integrated luminosity of 183 pb^-1 was obtained at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. The measurements are performed through a spin density matrix analysis of the W boson decay products. The fraction of W bosons produced with longitudinal polarisation was found to be sigma_L/sigma_total = (21.0 +- 3.3 +- 1.6)% where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. The joint W boson pair production fractions were found to be sigma_TT/sigma_total = (78.1 +- 9.0 +- 3.2) %, sigma_LL/sigma_total = (20.1 +- 7.2 +- 1.8) % and sigma_TL/sigma_total = (1.8 +- 14.7 +- 3.8) %. In the CP-violating trilinear gauge coupling sector we find kappa_z = -0.20 +0.10 -0.07, g^z_4 = -0.02 +0.32 -0.33 and lambda_z = -0.18 +0.24 -0.16, where errors include both statistical and systematic uncertainties. In each case the coupling is determined with all other couplings set to their Standard Model values except those related to the measured coupling via SU(2)_LxU(1)_Y symmetry. These results are consistent with Standard Model expectations., Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2000

46. First Measurement of the Inclusive Branching Ratio of b Hadrons $\to \phi$ Mesons in $Z^{0}$ Decays

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, S., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., and Zacek, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The inclusive production rate of phi mesons from the decay of b hadrons produced in Z0 decays was measured to be Br(b->phi+X) = 0.0282+-0.0013(stat.)+-0.0019(syst.), using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. The inclusive branching fraction of φ mesons from the decay of b hadrons produced in Z decays was measured to be Br(b→ φ X)=0.0282±0.0013 (stat.)±0.0019 (syst.), using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. The inclusive production rate of phi mesons from the decay of b hadrons produced in Z0 decays was measured to be Br(b->phi+X) = 0.0282+-0.0013(stat.)+-0.0019(syst.), using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP.
Published: 2000

47. Measurement of the Low-x Behaviour of the Photon Structure Function F2-gamma

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Bechtluft, J., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lauber, J., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, S., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Ward, J.J., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., G., Abbiendi, K., Ackerstaff, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S. F., Ashby, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, A. H., Ball, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, S., Baumann, J., Bechtluft, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, S., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, P., Bock, J., Bohme, O., Boeriu, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, P., Bright Thoma, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, P., Capiluppi, R. K., Carnegie, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, C., Ciocca, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, O. C., Cooke, J., Couchman, C., Couyoumtzeli, R. L., Coxe, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., de Roeck, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M. S., Dixit, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, P. G., Estabrook, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, M., Fanti, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, L., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, D., Glenzinski, J., Goldberg, C., Grandi, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, C., Hajdu, G. G., Hanson, M., Hansroul, M., Hapke, K., Harder, A., Harel, C. K., Hargrove, M., Harin Dirac, A., Hauke, M., Hauschild, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, M. D., Hildreth, J. C., Hill, A., Hocker, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, A. K., Honma, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, F. R., Jacob, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, J., Lauber, I., Lawson, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, R., Liebisch, J., Lillich, B., List, C., Littlewood, A. W., Lloyd, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, G. D., Long, M. J., Losty, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, M., Mannelli, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, W., Mohr, A., Montanari, T., Mori, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, F. G., Oakham, F., Odorici, H. O., Ogren, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J., Patt, P., Pfeifenschneider, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, C., Rembser, H., Rick, S. A., Robin, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, A. M., Rossi, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, O., Runolfsson, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., C., Sbarra, A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, S., Schmitt, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G. P., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, K., Stoll, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, B., Surrow, S. D., Talbot, S., Tarem, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M., Thiergen, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, S., Tower, T., Trefzger, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, J. J., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, J. S., White, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Systematic error, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Detector, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Engineering (miscellaneous), Particle Physics - Experiment, Photon structure function, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The photon structure function F2-gamma(x,Q**2) has been measured using data taken by the OPAL detector at centre-of-mass energies of 91Gev, 183Gev and 189Gev, in Q**2 ranges of 1.5 to 30.0 GeV**2 (LEP1), and 7.0 to 30.0 GeV**2 (LEP2), probing lower values of x than ever before. Since previous OPAL analyses, new Monte Carlo models and new methods, such as multi-variable unfolding, have been introduced, reducing significantly the model dependent systematic errors in the measurement., 49 pages, 21 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2000

48. Search for Trilinear Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings in Z-gamma production at sqrt(s)=189GeV at LEP

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, S., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: Physics, Gauge boson, Particle physics, Photon, Missing energy, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Photon energy, Gauge (firearms), 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Polar coordinate system, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Energy (signal processing), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 189GeV by the OPAL detector at LEP are used to search for trilinear couplings of the neutral gauge bosons in the process e+e- --> Z-gamma. The cross-sections are measured for multihadronic events with an energetic isolated photon and for events with a high energy photon accompanied by missing energy. These cross-sections and the photon energy, polar angle and isolation angle distributions are compared to the Standard Model predictions and to the theoretical expectations of a model allowing for Z-gamma-Z and Z-gamma-gamma vertices. Since no significant deviations with respect to the Standard Model expectations are found, constraints are derived on the strength of neutral trilinear gauge couplings., 25 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2000
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49. A Measurement of the Rate of Charm Production in W Decays

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Benelli, G., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., de Wolf, E., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vachon, B., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D., OPAL Collaboration, G., Abbiendi, K., Ackerstaff, C., Ainsley, P. F., Akesson, G., Alexander, J., Allison, K. J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S. F., Ashby, D., Axen, G., Azuelo, I., Bailey, A. H., Ball, E., Barberio, R. J., Barlow, S., Baumann, T., Behnke, K. W., Bell, G., Bella, A., Bellerive, G., Benelli, S., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, O., Biebel, I. J., Bloodworth, O., Boeriu, P., Bock, J., Bohme, D., Bonacorsi, M., Boutemeur, S., Braibant, P., Bright Thoma, L., Brigliadori, R. M., Brown, H. J., Burckhart, J., Cammin, P., Capiluppi, R. K., Carnegie, A. A., Carter, J. R., Carter, C. Y., Chang, D. G., Charlton, P. E., L., E., Clay, I., Cohen, O. C., Cooke, J., Couchman, C., Couyoumtzeli, R. L., Coxe, A., Csilling, M., Cuffiani, S., Dado, G. M., Dallavalle, S., Dallison, A., de Roeck, E., de Wolf, P., Dervan, K., Desch, B., Diene, M. S., Dixit, M., Donker, J., Dubbert, E., Duchovni, G., Duckeck, I. P., Duerdoth, P. G., Estabrook, E., Etzion, F., Fabbri, M., Fanti, L., Feld, P., Ferrari, F., Fiedler, I., Fleck, M., Ford, A., Frey, A., Furtje, D. I., Futyan, P., Gagnon, J. W., Gary, G., Gaycken, C., Geich Gimbel, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, D., Glenzinski, J., Goldberg, C., Grandi, K., Graham, E., Gro, J., Grunhau, M., Gruwe, P. O., Gunther, C., Hajdu, G. G., Hanson, M., Hansroul, M., Hapke, K., Harder, A., Harel, M., Harin Dirac, A., Hauke, M., Hauschild, C. M., Hawke, R., Hawking, R. J., Hemingway, C., Hensel, G., Herten, R. D., Heuer, J. C., Hill, A., Hocker, K., Hoffman, R. J., Homer, A. K., Honma, D., Horvath, K. R., Hossain, R., Howard, P., Huntemeyer, P., Igo Kemene, K., Ishii, F. R., Jacob, A., Jawahery, H., Jeremie, C. R., Jone, P., Jovanovic, T. R., Junk, N., Kanaya, J., Kanzaki, G., Karapetian, D., Karlen, V., Kartvelishvili, K., Kawagoe, T., Kawamoto, R. K., Keeler, R. G., Kellogg, B. W., Kennedy, D. H., Kim, K., Klein, A., Klier, S., Kluth, T., Kobayashi, M., Kobel, T. P., Kokott, S., Komamiya, R. V., Kowalewski, T., Kre, P., Krieger, J., von Krogh, T., Kuhl, M., Kupper, P., Kyberd, G. D., Lafferty, H., Landsman, D., Lanske, I., Lawson, J. G., Layter, A., Lein, D., Lellouch, J., Lett, L., Levinson, R., Liebisch, J., Lillich, B., List, C., Littlewood, A. W., Lloyd, S. L., Lloyd, F. K., Loebinger, G. D., Long, M. J., Losty, J., Lu, J., Ludwig, A., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, W., Mader, S., Marcellini, T. E., Marchant, A. J., Martin, J. P., Martin, G., Martinez, T., Mashimo, P., Mattig, W. J., Mcdonald, J., Mckenna, T. J., Mcmahon, R. A., Mcpherson, F., Meijer, P., Mendez Lorenzo, W., Menge, F. S., Merritt, H., Me, A., Michelini, S., Mihara, G., Mikenberg, D. J., Miller, W., Mohr, A., Montanari, T., Mori, K., Nagai, I., Nakamura, H. A., Neal, R., Nisiu, S. W., O'Neale, F. G., Oakham, F., Odorici, H. O., Ogren, A., Oh, A., Okpara, M. J., Oreglia, S., Orito, G., Pasztor, J. R., Pater, G. N., Patrick, J., Patt, P., Pfeifenschneider, J. E., Pilcher, J., Pinfold, D. E., Plane, B., Poli, J., Polok, O., Pooth, M., Przybycien, A., Quadt, C., Rembser, P., Renkel, H., Rick, N., Rodning, J. M., Roney, S., Rosati, K., Roscoe, A. M., Rossi, Y., Rozen, K., Runge, O., Runolfsson, D. R., Rust, K., Sach, T., Saeki, O., Sahr, E. K., G., C., Sbarra, A. D., Schaile, O., Schaile, P., Scharff Hansen, M., Schroder, M., Schumacher, C., Schwick, W. G., Scott, R., Seuster, T. G., Shear, B. C., Shen, C. H., Shepherd Themistocleou, P., Sherwood, G. P., Siroli, A., Skuja, A. M., Smith, G. A., Snow, R., Sobie, S., Soldner Rembold, Spagnolo, Stefania Antonia, M., Sproston, A., Stahl, K., Stephen, K., Stoll, D., Strom, R., Strohmer, L., Stumpf, B., Surrow, S. D., Talbot, S., Tarem, R. J., Taylor, R., Teuscher, M., Thiergen, J., Thoma, M. A., Thomson, E., Torrence, S., Tower, D., Toya, T., Trefzger, I., Trigger, Z., Trocsanyi, E., Tsur, M. F., Turner Watson, I., Ueda, P., Vannerem, M., Verzocchi, H., Vo, J., Vossebeld, D., Waller, C. P., Ward, D. R., Ward, P. M., Watkin, A. T., Watson, N. K., Watson, P. S., Well, T., Wengler, N., Werme, D., Wetterling, J. S., White, G. W., Wilson, J. A., Wilson, T. R., Wyatt, S., Yamashita, V., Zacek, and D., Zer Zion
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, Branching fraction, Hadron, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Jet (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, Charm quark, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Charm (quantum number), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: Using data recorded at centre-of-mass energies around 183 GeV and 189 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP, the fundamental coupling of the charm quark to the W boson has been studied. The ratio Rc^W = Gamma(W -> cX)/Gamma(W -> hadrons) has been measured from jet properties, lifetime information, and leptons produced in charm decays. A value compatible with the Standard Model expectation of 0.5 is obtained: Rc^W = 0.481 +- 0.042(stat.) +- 0.032(syst.). By combining this result with measurements of the W boson total width and hadronic branching ratio, the magnitude of the CKM matrix element Vcs is determined to be |Vcs| = 0.969 +- 0.058., 18 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Published: 2000
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50. Searches for prompt light gravitino signatures in e+e- Collisions at sqrt{s}=189GeV

Author: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hobson, P.R., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Imrie, D.C., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sang, W.M., Sarkisyan, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schmitt, S., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., and Zer-Zion, D.
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Missing energy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Minimal models, Supersymmetry, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Gravitino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: Searches for final states expected in models with light gravitinos have been performed, including experimental topologies with multi-leptons with missing energy, leptons and photons with missing energy, and jets and photons with missing energy. No excess over the expectations from the Standard Model has been observed. Limits are placed on production cross-sections in the different experimental topologies. Additionally, combining with searches for the anomalous production of lepton and photon pairs with missing energy, results are interpreted in the context of minimal models of gauge mediated SUSY breaking. Exclusion limits are established at the 95% confidence level on the supersymmetric particle masses; m-slepton > 83 GeV and m-neutralino > 85 GeV for tan(beta)=2, m-stau > 69 GeV, m-selectron,-smu > 88 GeV and m-neutralino > 76 GeV for tan(beta)=20., 19 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Published: 2000
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