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most citedA Study of B Meson Oscillations Using Hadronic Z^0 Decays Containing Leptons

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39 papers

physics.ins-det2022

Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20300 GeV/c

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +454

The upgrade of the CMS experiment for the high luminosity operation of the LHC comprises the replacement of the current endcap calorimeter by a high granularity sampling calorimete…

physics.ins-det2021★ 19 cited

Response of a CMS HGCAL silicon-pad electromagnetic calorimeter prototype to 20-300 GeV positrons

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +385

The Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration is designing a new high-granularity endcap calorimeter, HGCAL, to be installed later this decade. As part of this development work, a protot…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

Energy and time measurements with high-granular silicon devices

Marcello Mannelli, Roman Pöschl, Abraham Seiden

This note is a short summary of the workshop on "Energy and time measurements with high-granular silicon devices" that took place on the 13/6/16 and the 14/6/16 at DESY/Hamburg in…

physics.ins-det2009★ 12 cited

Performance studies of the CMS Strip Tracker before installation

CMS Tracker Collaboration

In March 2007 the assembly of the Silicon Strip Tracker was completed at the Tracker Integration Facility at CERN. Nearly 15% of the detector was instrumented using cables, fiber o…

hep-ex2000★ 2 cited

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…

hep-ex2000★ 41 cited

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…

hep-ex2000★ 76 cited

Photonic events with missing energy in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)=189 GeV

G. Abbiendi, the OPAL collaboration

Photonic events with large missing energy have been observed in e+e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 189GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Results are presented for event…

hep-ex2000★ 14 cited

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…

hep-ex2000★ 16 cited

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…

hep-ex1999★ 30 cited

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…

hep-ex1999★ 40 cited

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…

hep-ex1999★ 15 cited

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…

hep-ex1999★ 45 cited

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…

hep-ex1999★ 16 cited

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…

hep-ex1999★ 3 cited

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…

hep-ex1998★ 16 cited

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…

hep-ex1998★ 8 cited

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…

hep-ex1998★ 20 cited

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.…

hep-ex1998★ 37 cited

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…

hep-ex1998★ 9 cited

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…

hep-ex1998★ 30 cited

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…

hep-ex1998★ 9 cited

First Measurement of Z/gamma* Production in Compton Scattering of Quasi-real Photons

OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al

We report the first observation of Z/gamma* production in Compton scattering of quasi-real photons. This is a subprocess of the reaction e+e- to e+e-Z/gamma*, where one of the fina…

hep-ex1998

Search for Scalar Top and Scalar Bottom Quarks at sqrt(s) = 183 GeV at LEP

The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al

Searches for a scalar top quark and a scalar bottom quark have been performed using a total data sample of 56.8 pb-1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV collected with the OPAL d…

hep-ex1998★ 18 cited

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…