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19992002
most citedDecay-mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP

164 citations · 901 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

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…

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★ 19 cited

Genuine Correlations of Like-Sign Particles in Hadronic Z0 Decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Correlations among hadrons with the same electric charge produced in Z0 decays are studied using the high statistics data collected from 1991 through 1995 with the OPAL detector at…

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★ 18 cited

Measurement of the Branching Ratio for the Process b -> tau nu X

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

The inclusive branching ratio for the process b -> tau nu X has been measured using hadronic Z decays collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP in the years 1992-2000. The result is:…

hep-ex2001★ 1 cited

Angular Analysis of the Muon Pair Asymmetry at LEP 1

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Data on muon pair production obtained by the OPAL collaboration at centre of mass energies near the Z peak are analysed. Small angular mismatches between the directions of the two…

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…

hep-ex2000★ 7 cited

A Measurement of the Rate of Charm Production in W Decays

The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi

Using data recorded at centre-of-mass energies around 183 GeV and 189 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP, the fundamental coupling of the charm quark to the W boson has been studied…

hep-ex2000★ 21 cited

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…

hep-ex2000★ 1 cited

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…

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…