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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…
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…
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…
Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson in e+e- Collisions at 189 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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 inv…
First Measurement of the Inclusive Branching Ratio of b Hadrons to phi Mesons in Z0 Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
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 col…
Searches for prompt light gravitino signatures in e+e- Collisions at sqrt{s}=189GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Searches for final states expected in models with light gravitinos have been performed, including experimental topologies with multi-leptons with missing energy, leptons and photon…
A measurement of the tau mass and the first CPT test with tau leptons
G. Abbiendi, the OPAL collaboration
We measure the mass of the tau lepton to be 1775.1+-1.6(stat)+-1.0(syst.) MeV using tau pairs from Z0 decays. To test CPT invariance we compare the masses of the positively and neg…
Z boson pair production in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) = 183 and 189 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A study of Z boson pair production in e+e- annihilation at center-of-mass energies near 183 GeV and 189 GeV is reported. Final states containing only leptons, (l+l-l+l- and l+l-nu…
Search for new Physics in rare B Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A search for the decay B+- to K+-K+-pi-+ was performed using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. These decays are strongly suppressed in the Standard Model but could occur…
Measurement of Angular Distributions and R= sigma_L/sigma_T in Diffractive Electroproduction of rho^0 Mesons
HERMES Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff
Production and decay angular distributions were extracted from measurements of exclusive electroproduction of the rho^0(770) meson over a range in the virtual photon negative four-…
Nuclear Effects on R = sigma_L / sigma_T in Deep-Inelastic Scattering
K. Ackerstaff
Cross section ratios for deep-inelastic scattering from 14N and 3He with respect to 2H have been measured by the HERMES experiment at DESY using a 27.5 GeV positron beam. The data…
Measurement of the W+W-gamma Cross-section and First direct Limits on Anomalous Electroweak Quartic Gauge Couplings
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A study of W+W- events accompanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with two on-shell W-bosons and an isolated photon are…
Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) ~189GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendo
A search for neutral Higgs bosons has been performed with the OPAL detector at LEP, using approximately 170 pb-1 of e+e- collision data collected at sqrt(s)~189GeV. Searches have b…
Search for Higgs Bosons and Other Massive States decaying into two Photons in e+e- Collisions at 189 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
A search is described for the generic process e+e- to X Y, where X is a neutral heavy scalar boson decaying into a pair of photons, and Y is a neutral heavy boson (scalar or vector…
Flavor Decomposition of the Polarized Quark Distributions in the Nucleon from Inclusive and Semi-inclusive Deep-inelastic Scattering
K. Ackerstaff, The HERMES Collaboration
Spin asymmetries of semi-inclusive cross sections for the production of positively and negatively charged hadrons have been measured in deep-inelastic scattering of polarized posit…
Search for Scalar Top and Scalar Bottom Quarks at sqrt(s) = 189 GeV at LEP
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
Searches for a scalar top quark and a scalar bottom quark have been performed using a data sample of 182 pb-1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV collected with the OPAL detector…
Colour reconnection studies in e+e- -> W+W- at sqrt(s)=183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
The predicted effects of final state interactions such as colour reconnection are investigated by measuring properties of hadronic decays of W bosons, recorded at a centre-of-mass…
Search for Baryon and Lepton Number Violating Z0 Decays
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
Using data collected with the OPAL detector at LEP, we have searched for the processes e+e- -> Z0 -> p e-, p mu- and the charge conjugate final-states. These would violate the cons…
A Measurement of the tau->electron Branching Ratio
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
The branching ratio for the decay tau->e nue nutau has been measured using Z0 decay data collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP. In total 33073 tau->e nue nutau candidates were id…
Bose-Einstein Correlations in e+e- to W+W- at 172 and 183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
Bose-Einstein correlations between like-charge pions are studied in hadronic final states produced by e+e- annihilations at center-of-mass energies of 172 and 183 GeV. Three event…
Observation of a Coherence Length Effect in Exclusive Rho^0 Electroproduction
K. Ackerstaff
Exclusive incoherent electroproduction of the rho^0(770) meson from 1H, 2H, 3He, and 14N targets has been studied by the HERMES experiment at squared four-momentum transfer Q**2>0.…
Search for Anomalous Photonic Events with Missing Energy in e+e- Collisions at Ecm = 130, 136 and 183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
Photonic events with large missing energy have been observed in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 130, 136 and 183 GeV collected in 1997 using the OPAL detector at LEP.…
A Measurement of Rb using a Double Tagging Method
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
The fraction of Z to bbbar events in hadronic Z decays has been measured by the OPAL experiment using the data collected at LEP between 1992 and 1995. The Z to bbbar decays were ta…
Determination of the Deep Inelastic Contribution to the Generalised Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Integral for the Proton and Neutron
K. Ackerstaff
The virtual photon absorption cross section differences [sigma_1/2-sigma_3/2] for the proton and neutron have been determined from measurements of polarised cross section asymmetri…