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Electroweak Measurements in Electron-Positron Collisions at W-Boson-Pair Energies at LEP
The ALEPH Collaboration, The DELPHI Collaboration, The L3 Collaboration +2
Electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the electron-positron collider LEP at CERN from 1995 to 2000 are reported. The combined data set considered in this report cor…
Determination of αS using OPAL hadronic event shapes at sqrt(s) = 91 - 209 GeV and resummed NNLO calculations
The OPAL Collaboration
Hadronic event shape distributions from e+e- annihilation measured by the OPAL experiment at centre-of-mass energies between 91 GeV and 209 GeV are used to determine the strong cou…
Measurement of the e+e- -> W+W- cross section and W decay branching fractions at LEP
The OPAL collaboration
From a total data sample of 701.1 pb^-1 recorded with e+e- centre-of-mass energies of sqrt = 161-209 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP, 11693 W-pair candidate events are selected.…
Bose-Einstein study of position-momentum correlations of charged pions in hadronic Z0 decays
The OPAL collaboration
A study of Bose-Einstein correlations in pairs of identically charged pions produced in e+e- annihilations at the Z0 peak has been performed for the first time assuming a non-stati…
Search for Direc Magnetic Monopoles in e+e- Collisions with the OPAL Detector at LEP2
The OPAL collaboration
This letter describes a direct search for pair produced magnetic monopoles in e+e- collisions. The analysis is based on 62.7 pb^-1 of data collected with the OPAL detector at an av…
Search for Invisibly Decaying Higgs Bosons with Large Decay Width Using the OPAL Detector at LEP
The OPAL collaboration
This paper describes a topological search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson,H, produced via the Bjorken process (e+e- -> HZ). The analysis is based on data recorded using the O…
Colour reconnection in e+e- -> W+W- at sqrt(s) = 189 - 209 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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 det…
Measurement of the mass and width of the W boson
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi
The mass and width of the W boson are measured using e+e- -> W+W- events from the data sample collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 170 GeV and…
Mulit-Photon Events with Large Missing energy in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)=192-209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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 -…
Determination of the LEP Beam Energy using Radiative Fermion-pair Events
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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…
Search for Neutral Higgs Boson in CP-Conserving and CP-Violating MSSM Scenarios
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
This report summarizes the final results from the OPAL collaboration on searches for neutral Higgs bosons predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). CP-conservi…
Scaling violations of quark and gluon jet fragmentation functions in e+e- annihilations at sqrt(s) = 91.2 and 183-209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Flavour inclusive, udsc and b fragmentation functions in unbiased jets, and flavour inclusive, udsc, b and gluon fragmentation functions in biased jets are measured in e+e- annihil…
Study of Bose-Einstein Correlations in e+e- -> W+W- events at LEP
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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…
W Boson Polarisation at LEP2
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Elements of the spin density matrix for W bosons in e+e- -> W+W- -> qqln events are measured from data recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP. This information is used calculate pola…
Experimental studies of unbiased gluon jets from e+e- annihilations using the jet boost algorithm
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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 bias…
Study of Z Pair Production and Anomalous Couplings in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) between 190 GeV and 209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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-…
Tests of the Standard Model and Constraints on New Physics from Measurements of Fermion-Pair Production at 189-209 GeV at LEP
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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…
A Study of W+W-gamma Events at LEP
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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 photo…
Search for the Single Production of Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons and Constraints on their Couplings from Bhabha Scattering
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A search for single production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons has been performed using 600.7 pb^-1 of e+e- collision data with sqrt(s)=189--209GeV collected by the OPAL detector at…
Measurement of Heavy Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetries and Average B Mixing Using Leptons in Hadronic Z Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Hadronic Z0 decays with identified electrons or muons have been used to measure the forward-backward asymmetries of e^+e^- --> Z0 --> bbbar and e^+e^- --> Z0 --> ccbar events. The…
A study of charm production in beauty decays with the OPAL detector at LEP
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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-…
Measurement of |Vcb| using B0 -> D* l nu_l Decays
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
A preliminary measurement of |Vcb| and the branching fraction BR(B0 -> D* l nu_l) has been performed based on a sample of about 55,700 B0 -> D* l nu_l decays recorded with the BaBa…
Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Charginos and Neutralinos at LEP
The OPAL collaboration
A search was performed for charginos with masses close to the mass of the lightest neutralino in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 189-209 GeV recorded by the OPAL dete…
Inclusive Analysis of the b Quark Fragmentation Function in Z Decays at LEP
The OPAL collaboration
A study of b quark hadronisation is presented using inclusively reconstructed B hadrons in about four million hadronic Z decays recorded in 1992-2000 with the OPAL detector at LEP.…