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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-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★ 20 cited

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.…

hep-ex2007★ 14 cited

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…

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★ 10 cited

Inclusive Production of Charged Hadrons in Photon-Photon Collisions

The OPAL collaboration

The inclusive production of charged hadrons in the collisions of quasi-real photons e+e- -> e+e- +X has been measured using the OPAL detector at LEP. The data were taken at e+e- ce…

hep-ex2006★ 6 cited

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…

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★ 42 cited

Searches for Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Topologies in e+e- collisions at LEP2

The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Searches were performed for topologies predicted by gauge-mediated Supersymmetry breaking models (GMSB). All possible lifetimes of the next-to-lightest SUSY particle (NLSP), either…

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-ex2004★ 27 cited

Flavour Independent hA Search and Two Higgs Doublet Model Interpretation of Neutral Higgs Boson Searches at LEP

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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, ind…

hep-ex2004★ 58 cited

Measurement of the Strange Spectral Function in Hadronic tau Decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 dec…

hep-ex2003★ 144 cited

Search for Anomalous Production of Di-lepton Events with Missing Transverse Momentum in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 183-209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 fro…

hep-ex2003★ 52 cited

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

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 in…

hep-ex2003★ 27 cited

Tests of model of color reconnection and a search for glueballs using gluon jets with a rapidity gap

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 e…

hep-ex2003★ 5 cited

Measurement of Isolated Prompt Photon Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s)_ee=183-209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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…

hep-ex2003★ 35 cited

Search for pair-produced leptoquarks in e+e- interactions at sqrt(s) = 189 - 209 GeV

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

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 s…

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…