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

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physics.ins-det2019★ 3 cited

A numerical study on the discharges in Micromegas

Deb Sankar Bhattacharya, Raimund Ströhmer, Thomas Trefzger

The Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) have been widely adopted in nuclear and particle physics experiments, for their fast response and other excellent characteristics. To ach…

hep-ex2018★ 17 cited

Search for vector-boson resonances decaying to a top quark and bottom quark in the lepton plus jets final state in collisions at = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for new charged massive gauge bosons, , is performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Data were collected in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass ener…

physics.ins-det2016★ 38 cited

Construction and Test of MDT Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

F. Bauer, U. Bratzler, H. Dietl +12

The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the AT- LAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurized drift tubes on eit…

hep-ex2007★ 76 cited

Observation and properties of the orbitally excited B_{s2}* Meson

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov et al

We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B_{s2}* in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B_{s2}* meson is measured to be {5839.6 +- 1.1 (stat.) +- 0…

physics.ins-det2007★ 2 cited

The ATLAS Level-1 Trigger: Status of the System and First Results from Cosmic-Ray Data

David Berge

The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be exposed to proton-proton collisions from beams crossing at 40 MHz. At the design luminosity of 10^34 cm^-2 s^-1 the…

hep-ex2005★ 40 cited

Search for right-handed W bosons in top quark decay

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We present a measurement of the fraction f+ of right-handed W bosons produced in top quark decays, based on a candidate sample of events in the lepton+jets decay mode. T…

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…