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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…
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…
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…
A Search for CP(T) Violation in B Decays at OPAL
R. Coxe
A search for CP(T) violation is performed and the fractional difference between the and hadron lifetimes is measured using reconstructed secondary vertices in inclusiv…
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…
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…
Measurement of the Longitudinal Cross-Section using the Direction of the Thrust Axis in Hadronic Events at LEP
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
In the process e+e- to hadrons, one of the effects of gluon emission is to modify the 1+cos(theta)**2 form of the angular distribution of the thrust axis, an effect which may be qu…
A Study of Parton Fragmentation in Hadronic Z0 Decays Using Lambda-Lambdabar Correlations
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
The correlated production of Lambda and Lambdabar baryons has been studied using 4.3 million multihadronic Zo decays recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP. Di-lambda pairs were in…
Search for Higgs Bosons and New Particles Decaying into Two Photons at sqrt(s) = 183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al
A search for the resonant production of high mass photon pairs associated with a leptonic or hadronic system has been performed using a data sample of 57.7 pb-1 collected at an ave…
Measurements of Flavour Dependent Fragmentation Functions in Z^0 -> qq(bar) Events
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al
Fragmentation functions for charged particles in Z -> qq(bar) events have been measured for bottom (b), charm (c) and light (uds) quarks as well as for all flavours together. The r…
An upper limit on the anomalous magnetic moment of the τlepton
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al
Using radiative Z^0 -> τ^+ τ^- γevents collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at \sqrt{s}= M_Z during 1990-95, a direct study of the electromagnetic current at the τγvertex has be…
A Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons in the MSSM and Models with Two Scalar Field Doublets
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al
A search is described for the neutral Higgs bosons h^0 and A^0 predicted by models with two scalar field doublets and, in particular, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSS…