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ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL Collaborations, LEP Electroweak Working Group (Schael, S. et al); Costa, M.J.; Ferrer, A.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Oyanguren, A.; Perepelitsa, V.; Salt, J.; Tortosa, P. |
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Electroweak measurements in electron positron collisions at W-boson-pair energies at LEP |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Physics Reports |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rep. |
Volume  |
532 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
119-244 |
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Electron-positron physics; Electroweak interactions; Decays of heavy intermediate gauge bosons; Fermion-antifermion production; Precision measurements at W-pair energies; Tests of the Standard Model; Radiative corrections; Effective coupling constants; Neutral weak current; Z boson; W boson; Top quark; Higgs boson |
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Electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the electron positron collider LEP at CERN from 1995 to 2000 are reported. The combined data set considered in this report corresponds to a total luminosity of about 3 fb(-1) collected by the four LEP experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, 13 and OPAL, at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 130 GeV to 209 GeV. Combining the published results of the four LEP experiments, the measurements include total and differential cross-sections in photon-pair, fermion-pair and four-fermion production, the latter resulting from both double-resonant WW and ZZ production as well as singly resonant production. Total and differential cross-sections are measured precisely, providing a stringent test of the Standard Model at centre-of-mass energies never explored before in electron positron collisions. Final-state interaction effects in four-fermion production, such as those arising from colour reconnection and Bose Einstein correlations between the two W decay systems arising in WW production, are searched for and upper limits on the strength of possible effects are obtained. The data are used to determine fundamental properties of the W boson and the electroweak theory. Among others, the mass and width of the W boson, m(w) and Gamma(w), the branching fraction of W decays to hadrons, B(W -> had), and the trilinear gauge-boson self-couplings g(1)(Z), K-gamma and lambda(gamma), are determined to be: m(w) = 80.376 +/- 0.033 GeV Gamma(w) = 2.195 +/- 0.083 GeV B(W -> had) = 67.41 +/- 0.27% g(1)(Z) = 0.984(-0.020)(+0.018) K-gamma – 0.982 +/- 0.042 lambda(gamma) = 0.022 +/- 0.019. |
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[Schael, S.] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys, D-52056 Aachen, Germany |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-1573 |
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WOS:000328723800001 |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1679 |
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Antonelli, M. et al; Martinez-Vidal, F.; Pich, A. |
| Title |
Flavor physics in the quark sector |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
Physics Reports |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rep. |
| Volume |
494 |
Issue |
3-4 |
Pages |
197-414 |
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| Abstract |
In the past decade, one of the major challenges of particle physics has been to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of quark flavor. In this time frame, measurements and the theoretical interpretation of their results have advanced tremendously. A much broader understanding of flavor particles has been achieved; apart from their masses and quantum numbers, there now exist detailed measurements of the characteristics of their interactions allowing stringent tests of Standard Model predictions. Among the most interesting phenomena of flavor physics is the violation of the CP symmetry that has been subtle and difficult to explore. In the past, observations of CP violation were confined to neutral K mesons, but since the early 1990s, a large number of CP-violating processes have been studied in detail in neutral B mesons. In parallel, measurements of the couplings of the heavy quarks and the dynamics for their decays in large samples of K, D, and B mesons have been greatly improved in accuracy and the results are being used as probes in the search for deviations from the Standard Model. In the near future, there will be a transition from the current to a new generation of experiments; thus a review of the status of quark flavor physics is timely. This report is the result of the work of physicists attending the 5th CKM workshop, hosted by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, September 9-13, 2008. It summarizes the results of the current generation of experiments that are about to be completed and it confronts these results with the theoretical understanding of the field which has greatly improved in the past decade. |
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[Cabibbo, N.; Cavoto, G.; Faccini, R.; Ferroni, F.; Franco, E.; Giagu, S.; Martinelli, G.; Rescigno, M.; Silvestrini, L.; Virto, J.] INFN Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy, Email: rfaccini@slac.stanford.edu |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-1573 |
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ISI:000282194400001 |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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374 |
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