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

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38 papers

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…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 13 cited

The HOSTS survey: evidence for an extended dust disk and constraints on the presence of giant planets in the Habitable Zone of Leo

D. Defrère, P. M. Hinz, G. M. Kennedy +38

The young (50-400 Myr) A3V star Leo is a primary target to study the formation history and evolution of extrasolar planetary systems as one of the few stars with known hot ($\s…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 2 cited

The HOSTS Survey for Exozodiacal Dust: Preliminary results and future prospects

S. Ertel, G. M. Kennedy, D. Defrère +40

[abridged] The presence of large amounts of dust in the habitable zones of nearby stars is a significant obstacle for future exo-Earth imaging missions. We executed an N band nulli…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 64 cited

Nulling Data Reduction and On-Sky Performance of the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer

D. Defrère, P. M. Hinz, B. Mennesson +36

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) is a versatile instrument designed for high-angular resolution and high-contrast infrared imaging (1.5-13 microns). In this pape…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 8 cited

Exoplanet science with the LBTI: instrument status and plans

D. Defrère, P. Hinz, A. Skemer +21

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) is a strategic instrument of the LBT designed for high-sensitivity, high-contrast, and high-resolution infrared (1.5-13 m) im…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 56 cited

First-light LBT nulling interferometric observations: warm exozodiacal dust resolved within a few AU of eta Corvi

D. Defrère, P. M. Hinz, A. J. Skemer +37

We report on the first nulling interferometric observations with the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI), resolving the N' band (9.81 - 12.41 um) emission around the ne…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 33 cited

Co-phasing the Large Binocular Telescope: status and performance of LBTI/PHASECam

D. Defrère, P. Hinz, E. Downey +19

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer is a NASA-funded nulling and imaging instrument designed to coherently combine the two 8.4-m primary mirrors of the LBT for high-sensit…

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★ 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★ 73 cited

Search for Single Top Quark Production at LEP2

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

A search for single top quark production via flavour changing neutral currents (FCNC) was performed with data collected by the OPAL detector at the e+e- collider LEP. Approximately…

hep-ex2001★ 26 cited

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

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 th…

hep-ex2001★ 15 cited

Measurement of Vub using b hadron semileptonic decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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…

hep-ex2001★ 22 cited

Measurement of the Branching Ratio for D_s->tau nu_tau Decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Using about 3.9 million hadronic Z decays from e+e- collisions recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies near MZ the branching ratio for the decay D_s -> tau…

hep-ex2001★ 72 cited

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 192-209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson has been performed with the OPAL detector at LEP based on the full data sample collected at sqrt(s) = 192-209 GeV in 1999 and 2000, corr…

hep-ex2000★ 17 cited

Production rate of bb(bar) quark pairs from gluons and bb(bar)bb(bar) events in hadronic Z Decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 eve…

hep-ex2000★ 16 cited

Measurement of the B0 Lifetime and Oscillation Frequency using B0->D*+l-v decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

The lifetime and oscillation frequency of the B0 meson has been measured using B0->D*+l-v decays recorded on the Z0 peak with the OPAL detector at LEP. The D*+ -> D0pi+ decays were…