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hep-ex2024★ 2 cited

Measurement of the branching fraction of the decay at Belle II

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal +389

We measure the branching fraction of the decay using data collected with the Belle II detector. The data contain 387 million pairs produced i…

hep-ex2023★ 8 cited

The New Small Wheel electronics

G. Iakovidis, L. Levinson, Y. Afik +99

The increase in luminosity, and consequent higher backgrounds, of the LHC upgrades require improved rejection of fake tracks in the forward region of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer. T…

hep-ex2019★ 29 cited

Searching for New Physics with Contact Interactions

Yoav Afik, Shaouly Bar-Shalom, Jonathan Cohen +1

We study the impact of contact interactions involving two leptons (electrons or muons) and two -quarks () on the high-mass di-lepton region at the LHC.…

hep-ex2018★ 1 cited

Searching for Dark Matter with Resonance

Yoav Afik, Eitan Gozani, Yoram Rozen

Many models containing particles which are candidates for dark matter, assume the standard model particles and the dark matter candidates are mediated by a spin-0 particle. At the…

hep-ex2018★ 4 cited

DM+ simulations with DMSimp: an update

Yoav Afik, Fabio Maltoni, Kentarou Mawatari +4

Searches for dark matter (DM) produced using collider data probe wide regions of the allowed parameter space of many models and have become competitive with more traditional search…

hep-ex2018★ 16 cited

LHC Dark Matter Working Group: Next-generation spin-0 dark matter models

Tomohiro Abe, Yoav Afik, Andreas Albert +50

Dark matter (DM) simplified models are by now commonly used by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations to interpret searches for missing transverse energy (). The coher…

hep-ex2011★ 56 cited

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…

hep-ex2009★ 4 cited

Sigma-antihyperon correlations in Z0 decay and investigation of the baryon production mechanism

The OPAL Collaboration

Data collected around sqrt{s}=91 GeV by the OPAL experiment at the LEP e+e- collider are used to study the mechanism of baryon formation. As the signature, the fraction of Sigma-hy…

hep-ex2007★ 3 cited

Inclusive Jet Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s_ee) from 189 to 209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration

Inclusive jet production (e+e- -> e+e- +jet+X) is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons radiated by the LEP beams at e+e- centre-of-mass energies sqrt see from 189 to 209 GeV…

hep-ex2006★ 6 cited

QCD coherence and correlations of particles with restricted momenta in hadronic Z decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

QCD coherence effects are studied based on measurements of correlations of particles with either restricted transverse momenta, pT<pTcut, where pT is defined with respect to the th…

hep-ex2005★ 121 cited

Measurement of event shape distributions and moments in e+e- -> hadrons at 91-209 GeV and a determination of alpha_s

The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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…

hep-ex2003★ 76 cited

Search for Stable and Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 183-209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration

A search for stable and long-lived massive particles of electric charge |Q/e|=1 or fractional charges of 2/3, 4/3, and 5/3 is reported using data collected by the OPAL detector at…

hep-ex2003★ 35 cited

Test of non-commutative QED in the process e+e- -> gamma gamma at LEP

The OPAL collaboration

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. Her…

hep-ex2002★ 7 cited

Measurement of Neutral-Current Four-Fermion Production at LEP2

The OPAL collaboration

Four-fermion final states qqbar e+e- and qqbar mu+mu- from neutral-current interactions in e+e- collisions are studied in the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies from 1…

hep-ex2002★ 11 cited

Measurement of the Cross-Section for the Process GammaGamma -> Ppbar at sqrt(s)_ee=183-189 GeV at LEP

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

The exclusive production of proton-antiproton pairs in the collisions of two quasi-real photons had been studied using data taken at sqrt(s)_ee=183 GeV and 189 GeV with the OPAL de…

hep-ex2002★ 48 cited

Search for Scalar Top and Scalar Bottom Quarks at LEP

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Searches for a scalar top quark and a scalar bottom quark have been performed using a data sample of 438 pb-1 at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt(s) = 192 - 209 GeV collected with t…

hep-ex2002★ 25 cited

Search for Associated Production of Massive States Decaying into Two Photonsin e+e- Annihilations at sqrt(s) = 88-209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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…

hep-ex2002★ 22 cited

Search for Charged Excited Leptons in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 183-209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration

A search for charged excited leptons decaying into a lepton and photon has been performed using approximately 680 pb-1 of e+e- collision data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP…

hep-ex2002★ 164 cited

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

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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…

hep-ex2002★ 15 cited

Measurement of the Charm structure Function F2c of the Photon at LEP

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

The production of charm quarks is studied in deep-inelastic electron-photon scattering using data recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at normal e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 1…

hep-ex2002

Measurement of the Hadronic Photon Structure Function F2gamma at LEP2

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

The hadronic structure of the photon F2gamma is measured as a function of Bjorken x and of the photon virtuality Q2 using deep-inelastic scattering data taken by the OPAL detector…

hep-ex2001★ 17 cited

Search for Leptoquarks in Electron-Photon Scattering at sqrt(s_ee) up to 209 GeV at LEP

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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, ha…

hep-ex2001★ 65 cited

Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

A search for pair-produced doubly charged Higgs bosons has been performed using data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 614 pb-1 collected with the OPAL det…

hep-ex2001★ 19 cited

Genuine Correlations of Like-Sign Particles in Hadronic Z0 Decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Correlations among hadrons with the same electric charge produced in Z0 decays are studied using the high statistics data collected from 1991 through 1995 with the OPAL detector at…