Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e+e- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions

M. Acciarri; O. Adriani; M. Aguilar-Benitez; S. Ahlen; J. Alcaraz; G. Alemanni; J. Allaby; A. Aloisio; M. G. Alviggi; G. Ambrosi; H. Anderhub; V. P. Andreev; T. Angelescu; F. Anselmo; A. Arefiev; T. Azemoon; T. Aziz; P. Bagnaia; L. Baksay; S. Banerjee; S. Banerjee; K. Banicz; A. Barczyk; R. Barillere; L. Barone; P. Bartalini; A. Baschirotto; M. Basile; R. Battiston; A. Bay; F. Becattini; U. Becker; F. Behner; J. Berdugo; P. Berges; B. Bertucci; B. L. Betev; S. Bhattacharya; M. Biasini; A. Biland; G. M. Bilei; J. J. Blaising; S. C. Blyth; G. J. Bobbink; R. Bock; A. Böhm; L. Boldizsar; B. Borgia; D. Bourilkov; M. Bourquin; S. Braccini; J. G. Branson; V. Brigljevic; I. C. Brock; A. Buffini; A. Buijs; J. D. Burger; W. J. Burger; J. Busenitz; A. Button; X. D. Cai; M. Campanelli; M. Capell; G. Cara Romeo; G. Carlino; A. M. Cartacci; J. Casaus; G. Castellini; F. Cavallari; N. Cavallo; C. Cecchi; M. Cerrada; F. Cesaroni; M. Chamizo; Y. H. Chang; U. K. Chaturvedi; M. Chemarin; A. Chen; G. Chen; G. M. Chen; H. F. Chen; H. S. Chen; X. Chereau; G. Chiefari; C. Y. Chien; L. Cifarelli; F. Cindolo; C. Civinini; I. Clare; R. Clare; G. Coignet; A. P. Colijn; N. Colino; S. Costantini; F. Cotorobai; B. de la Cruz; A. Csilling; T. S. Dai; R. D'Alessandro; R. de Asmundis; A. Degré; K. Deiters; D. della Volpe; P. Denes; F. DeNotaristefani; M. Diemoz; D. van Dierendonck; F. di Lodovico; C. Dionisi; M. Dittmar; A. Dominguez; A. Doria; M. T. Dova; D. Duchesneau; P. Duinker; I. Duran; S. Easo; H. El Mamouni; A. Engler; F. J. Eppling; F. C. Erne; P. Extermann; M. Fabre; R. Faccini; M. A. Falagan; S. Falciano; A. Favara; J. Fay; O. Fedin; M. Felcini; T. Ferguson; F. Ferroni; H. Fesefeldt; E. Fiandrini; J. H. Field; F. Filthaut; P. H. Fisher; I. Fisk; G. Forconi; L. Fredj; K. Freudenreich; C. Furetta; Y. Galaktionov; S. N. Ganguli; P. Garcia-Abia; M. Gataullin; S. S. Gau; S. Gentile; N. Gheordanescu; S. Giagu; S. Goldfarb; J. Goldstein; Z. F. Gong; A. Gougas; G. Gratta; M. W. Gruenewald; R. van Gulik; V. K. Gupta; A. Gurtu; L. J. Gutay; D. Haas; B. Hartmann; A. Hasan; D. Hatzifotiadou; T. Hebbeker; A. Hervé; P. Hidas; J. Hirschfelder; W. C. van Hoek; H. Hofer; H. Hoorani; S. R. Hou; G. Hu; I. Iashvili; B. N. Jin; L. W. Jones; P. de Jong; I. Josa-Mutuberria; R. A. Khan; D. Kamrad; J. S. Kapustinsky; M. Kaur; M. N. Kienzle-Focacci; D. Kim; D. H. Kim; J. K. Kim; S. C. Kim; W. W. Kinnison; A. Kirkby; D. Kirkby; J. Kirkby; D. Kiss; W. Kittel; A. Klimentov; A. C. König; A. Kopp; I. Korolko; V. Koutsenko; R. W. Kraemer; W. Krenz; A. Kunin; P. Lacenter; P. Ladron de Guevara; I. Laktineh; G. Landi; C. Lapoint; K. Lassila-Perini; P. Laurikainen; A. Lavorato; M. Lebeau; A. Lebedev; P. Lebrun; P. Lecomte; P. Lecoq; P. Le Coultre; H. J. Lee; J. M. Le Goff; R. Leiste; E. Leonardi; P. Levtchenko; C. Li; C. H. Lin; W. T. Lin; F. L. Linde; L. Lista; Z. A. Liu; W. Lohmann; E. Longo; W. Lu; Y. S. Lu; K. Lubelsmeyer; C. Luci; D. Luckey; L. Luminari; W. Lustermann; W. G. Ma; M. Maity; G. Majumder; L. Malgeri; A. Malinin; C. Maña; D. Mangeol; P. Marchesini; G. Marian; A. Marin; J. P. Martin; F. Marzano; G. G.G. Massaro; K. Mazumdar; R. R. McNeil; S. Mele; L. Merola; M. Meschini; W. J. Metzger; M. von der Mey; D. Migani; A. Mihul; A. J.W. van Mil; H. Milcent; G. Mirabelli; J. Mnich; P. Molnar; B. Monteleoni; R. Moore; T. Moulik; R. Mount; G. S. Muanza; F. Muheim; A. J.M. Muijs; S. Nahn; M. Napolitano; F. Nessi-Tedaldi; H. Newman; T. Niessen; A. Nippe; A. Nisati; H. Nowak; Y. D. Oh; G. Organtini; R. Ostonen; S. Palit; C. Palomares; D. Pandoulas; S. Paoletti; P. Paolucci; H. K. Park; I. H. Park; G. Pascale; G. Passaleva; S. Patricelli; T. Paul; M. Pauluzzi; C. Paus; F. Pauss; D. Peach; M. Pedace; Y. J. Pei; S. Pensotti; D. Perret-Gallix; B. Petersen; S. Petrak; A. Pevsner; D. Piccolo; M. Pieri; P. A. Piroué; E. Pistolesi; V. Plyaskin; M. Pohl; V. Pojidaev; H. Postema; J. Pothier; N. Produit; D. Prokofiev; J. Quartieri; G. Rahal-Callot; N. Raja; P. G. Rancoita; M. Rattaggi; G. Raven; P. Razis; D. Ren; M. Rescigno; S. Reucroft; T. van Rhee; S. Riemann; K. Riles; A. Robohm; J. Rodin; B. P. Roe; L. Romero; S. Rosier-Lees; S. Roth; J. A. Rubio; D. Ruschmeier; H. Rykaczewski; S. Sakar; J. Salicio; E. Sanchez; M. P. Sanders; M. E. Sarakinos; C. Schäfer; V. Schegelsky; S. Schmidt-Kaerst; D. Schmitz; N. Scholz; H. Schopper; D. J. Schotanus; J. Schwenke; G. Schwering; C. Sciacca; D. Sciarrino; L. Servoli; S. Shevchenko; N. Shivarov; V. Shoutko; J. Shukla; E. Shumilov; A. Shvorob; T. Siedenburg; D. Son; B. Smith; P. Spillantini; M. Steuer; D. P. Stickland; A. Stone; H. Stone; B. Stoyanov; A. Straessner; K. Sudhakar; G. Sultanov; L. Z. Sun; G. F. Susinno; H. Suter; J. D. Swain; X. W. Tang; L. Tauscher; L. Taylor; C. Timmermans; S. C.C. Ting; S. M. Ting; S. C. Tonwar; J. Tóth; Christopher George Tully; K. L. Tung; Y. Uchida; J. Ulbricht; E. Valente; G. Vesztergombi; I. Vetlitsky; G. Viertel; M. Vivargent; S. Vlachos; H. Vogel; H. Vogt; I. Vorobiev; A. A. Vorobyov; A. Vorvolakos; M. Wadhwa; W. Wallraff; J. C. Wang; X. L. Wang; Z. M. Wang; A. Weber; S. X. Wu; S. Wynhoff; J. Xu; Z. Z. Xu; B. Z. Yang; C. G. Yang; H. J. Yang; M. Yang; J. B. Ye; S. C. Yeh; J. M. You; A. Zalite; Y. Zalite; P. Zemp; Y. Zeng; Z. P. Zhang; B. Zhou; G. Y. Zhu; R. Y. Zhu; A. Zichichi; F. Ziegler; G. Zilizi

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3

Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e⁺e^- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions

M. Acciarri, O. Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benitez, S. Ahlen, J. Alcaraz, G. Alemanni, J. Allaby, A. Aloisio, M. G. Alviggi, G. Ambrosi, H. Anderhub, V. P. Andreev, T. Angelescu, F. Anselmo, A. Arefiev, T. Azemoon, T. Aziz, P. Bagnaia, L. Baksay, S. BanerjeeS. Banerjee, K. Banicz, A. Barczyk, R. Barillere, L. Barone, P. Bartalini, A. Baschirotto, M. Basile, R. Battiston, A. Bay, F. Becattini, U. Becker, F. Behner, J. Berdugo, P. Berges, B. Bertucci, B. L. Betev, S. Bhattacharya, M. Biasini, A. Biland, G. M. Bilei, J. J. Blaising, S. C. Blyth, G. J. Bobbink, R. Bock, A. Böhm, L. Boldizsar, B. Borgia, D. Bourilkov, M. Bourquin, S. Braccini, J. G. Branson, V. Brigljevic, I. C. Brock, A. Buffini, A. Buijs, J. D. Burger, W. J. Burger, J. Busenitz, A. Button, X. D. Cai, M. Campanelli, M. Capell, G. Cara Romeo, G. Carlino, A. M. Cartacci, J. Casaus, G. Castellini, F. Cavallari, N. Cavallo, C. Cecchi, M. Cerrada, F. Cesaroni, M. Chamizo, Y. H. Chang, U. K. Chaturvedi, M. Chemarin, A. Chen, G. Chen, G. M. Chen, H. F. Chen, H. S. Chen, X. Chereau, G. Chiefari, C. Y. Chien, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, C. Civinini, I. Clare, R. Clare, G. Coignet, A. P. Colijn, N. Colino, S. Costantini, F. Cotorobai, B. de la Cruz, A. Csilling, T. S. Dai, R. D'Alessandro, R. de Asmundis, A. Degré, K. Deiters, D. della Volpe, P. Denes, F. DeNotaristefani, M. Diemoz, D. van Dierendonck, F. di Lodovico, C. Dionisi, M. Dittmar, A. Dominguez, A. Doria, M. T. Dova, D. Duchesneau, P. Duinker, I. Duran, S. Easo, H. El Mamouni, A. Engler, F. J. Eppling, F. C. Erne, P. Extermann, M. Fabre, R. Faccini, M. A. Falagan, S. Falciano, A. Favara, J. Fay, O. Fedin, M. Felcini, T. Ferguson, F. Ferroni, H. Fesefeldt, E. Fiandrini, J. H. Field, F. Filthaut, P. H. Fisher, I. Fisk, G. Forconi, L. Fredj, K. Freudenreich, C. Furetta, Y. Galaktionov, S. N. Ganguli, P. Garcia-Abia, M. Gataullin, S. S. Gau, S. Gentile, N. Gheordanescu, S. Giagu, S. Goldfarb, J. Goldstein, Z. F. Gong, A. Gougas, G. Gratta, M. W. Gruenewald, R. van Gulik, V. K. Gupta, A. Gurtu, L. J. Gutay, D. Haas, B. Hartmann, A. Hasan, D. Hatzifotiadou, T. Hebbeker, A. Hervé, P. Hidas, J. Hirschfelder, W. C. van Hoek, H. Hofer, H. Hoorani, S. R. Hou, G. Hu, I. Iashvili, B. N. Jin, L. W. Jones, P. de Jong, I. Josa-Mutuberria, R. A. Khan, D. Kamrad, J. S. Kapustinsky, M. Kaur, M. N. Kienzle-Focacci, D. Kim, D. H. Kim, J. K. Kim, S. C. Kim, W. W. Kinnison, A. Kirkby, D. Kirkby, J. Kirkby, D. Kiss, W. Kittel, A. Klimentov, A. C. König, A. Kopp, I. Korolko, V. Koutsenko, R. W. Kraemer, W. Krenz, A. Kunin, P. Lacenter, P. Ladron de Guevara, I. Laktineh, G. Landi, C. Lapoint, K. Lassila-Perini, P. Laurikainen, A. Lavorato, M. Lebeau, A. Lebedev, P. Lebrun, P. Lecomte, P. Lecoq, P. Le Coultre, H. J. Lee, J. M. Le Goff, R. Leiste, E. Leonardi, P. Levtchenko, C. Li, C. H. Lin, W. T. Lin, F. L. Linde, L. Lista, Z. A. Liu, W. Lohmann, E. Longo, W. Lu, Y. S. Lu, K. Lubelsmeyer, C. Luci, D. Luckey, L. Luminari, W. Lustermann, W. G. Ma, M. Maity, G. Majumder, L. Malgeri, A. Malinin, C. Maña, D. Mangeol, P. Marchesini, G. Marian, A. Marin, J. P. Martin, F. Marzano, G. G.G. Massaro, K. Mazumdar, R. R. McNeil, S. Mele, L. Merola, M. Meschini, W. J. Metzger, M. von der Mey, D. Migani, A. Mihul, A. J.W. van Mil, H. Milcent, G. Mirabelli, J. Mnich, P. Molnar, B. Monteleoni, R. Moore, T. Moulik, R. Mount, G. S. Muanza, F. Muheim, A. J.M. Muijs, S. Nahn, M. Napolitano, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, H. Newman, T. Niessen, A. Nippe, A. Nisati, H. Nowak, Y. D. Oh, G. Organtini, R. Ostonen, S. Palit, C. Palomares, D. Pandoulas, S. Paoletti, P. Paolucci, H. K. Park, I. H. Park, G. Pascale, G. Passaleva, S. Patricelli, T. Paul, M. Pauluzzi, C. Paus, F. Pauss, D. Peach, M. Pedace, Y. J. Pei, S. Pensotti, D. Perret-Gallix, B. Petersen, S. Petrak, A. Pevsner, D. Piccolo, M. Pieri, P. A. Piroué, E. Pistolesi, V. Plyaskin, M. Pohl, V. Pojidaev, H. Postema, J. Pothier, N. Produit, D. Prokofiev, J. Quartieri, G. Rahal-Callot, N. Raja, P. G. Rancoita, M. Rattaggi, G. Raven, P. Razis, D. Ren, M. Rescigno, S. Reucroft, T. van Rhee, S. Riemann, K. Riles, A. Robohm, J. Rodin, B. P. Roe, L. Romero, S. Rosier-Lees, S. Roth, J. A. Rubio, D. Ruschmeier, H. Rykaczewski, S. Sakar, J. Salicio, E. Sanchez, M. P. Sanders, M. E. Sarakinos, C. Schäfer, V. Schegelsky, S. Schmidt-Kaerst, D. Schmitz, N. Scholz, H. Schopper, D. J. Schotanus, J. Schwenke, G. Schwering, C. Sciacca, D. Sciarrino, L. Servoli, S. Shevchenko, N. Shivarov, V. Shoutko, J. Shukla, E. Shumilov, A. Shvorob, T. Siedenburg, D. Son, B. Smith, P. Spillantini, M. Steuer, D. P. Stickland, A. Stone, H. Stone, B. Stoyanov, A. Straessner, K. Sudhakar, G. Sultanov, L. Z. Sun, G. F. Susinno, H. Suter, J. D. Swain, X. W. Tang, L. Tauscher, L. Taylor, C. Timmermans, S. C.C. Ting, S. M. Ting, S. C. Tonwar, J. Tóth, Christopher George Tully, K. L. Tung, Y. Uchida, J. Ulbricht, E. Valente, G. Vesztergombi, I. Vetlitsky, G. Viertel, M. Vivargent, S. Vlachos, H. Vogel, H. Vogt, I. Vorobiev, A. A. Vorobyov, A. Vorvolakos, M. Wadhwa, W. Wallraff, J. C. Wang, X. L. Wang, Z. M. Wang, A. Weber, S. X. Wu, S. Wynhoff, J. Xu, Z. Z. Xu, B. Z. Yang, C. G. Yang, H. J. Yang, M. Yang, J. B. Ye, S. C. Yeh, J. M. You, A. Zalite, Y. Zalite, P. Zemp, Y. Zeng, Z. P. Zhang, B. Zhou, G. Y. Zhu, R. Y. Zhu, A. Zichichi, F. Ziegler, G. Zilizi

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Abstract

We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 55.47 pb^-1 collected at an average centre-of-mass energy of 182.68 GeV, we select 824 four-fermion events with pairs of hadronic jets or pairs of leptons with high invariant masses. Branching fractions of W decays into different fermion-antifermion pairs are determined. Assuming charged-current lepton universality, the branching fraction for hadronic W decays is measured to be: B(W → hadrons) = 70.1 ± 1.3 (stat.) ± 0.4 (syst.)%. Combining all final states the total cross section for W-pair production is measured to be: σ_ww = 16.53 ± 0.67 (stat.) + 0.26 (syst.) pb.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	437-452
Number of pages	16
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	436
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3
State	Published - Sep 24 1998

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., Aloisio, A., Alviggi, M. G., Ambrosi, G., Anderhub, H., Andreev, V. P., Angelescu, T., Anselmo, F., Arefiev, A., Azemoon, T., Aziz, T., Bagnaia, P., Baksay, L., ... Zilizi, G. (1998). Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e⁺e^- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 436(3-4), 437-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3

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title = "Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e+e- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions",

abstract = "We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 55.47 pb-1 collected at an average centre-of-mass energy of 182.68 GeV, we select 824 four-fermion events with pairs of hadronic jets or pairs of leptons with high invariant masses. Branching fractions of W decays into different fermion-antifermion pairs are determined. Assuming charged-current lepton universality, the branching fraction for hadronic W decays is measured to be: B(W → hadrons) = 70.1 ± 1.3 (stat.) ± 0.4 (syst.)%. Combining all final states the total cross section for W-pair production is measured to be: σww = 16.53 ± 0.67 (stat.) + 0.26 (syst.) pb.",

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Ma{\~n}a and D. Mangeol and P. Marchesini and G. Marian and A. Marin and Martin, {J. P.} and F. Marzano and Massaro, {G. G.G.} and K. Mazumdar and McNeil, {R. R.} and S. Mele and L. Merola and M. Meschini and Metzger, {W. J.} and {von der Mey}, M. and D. Migani and A. Mihul and {van Mil}, {A. J.W.} and H. Milcent and G. Mirabelli and J. Mnich and P. Molnar and B. Monteleoni and R. Moore and T. Moulik and R. Mount and Muanza, {G. S.} and F. Muheim and Muijs, {A. J.M.} and S. Nahn and M. Napolitano and F. Nessi-Tedaldi and H. Newman and T. Niessen and A. Nippe and A. Nisati and H. Nowak and Oh, {Y. D.} and G. Organtini and R. Ostonen and S. Palit and C. Palomares and D. Pandoulas and S. Paoletti and P. Paolucci and Park, {H. K.} and Park, {I. H.} and G. Pascale and G. Passaleva and S. Patricelli and T. Paul and M. Pauluzzi and C. Paus and F. Pauss and D. Peach and M. Pedace and Pei, {Y. J.} and S. Pensotti and D. Perret-Gallix and B. Petersen and S. Petrak and A. Pevsner and D. 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Zilizi",

year = "1998",

month = sep,

day = "24",

doi = "10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "436",

pages = "437--452",

journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",

issn = "0370-2693",

publisher = "Elsevier",

number = "3-4",

}

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Chereau, X, Chiefari, G, Chien, CY, Cifarelli, L, Cindolo, F, Civinini, C, Clare, I, Clare, R, Coignet, G, Colijn, AP, Colino, N, Costantini, S, Cotorobai, F, de la Cruz, B, Csilling, A, Dai, TS, D'Alessandro, R, de Asmundis, R, Degré, A, Deiters, K, della Volpe, D, Denes, P, DeNotaristefani, F, Diemoz, M, van Dierendonck, D, di Lodovico, F, Dionisi, C, Dittmar, M, Dominguez, A, Doria, A, Dova, MT, Duchesneau, D, Duinker, P, Duran, I, Easo, S, El Mamouni, H, Engler, A, Eppling, FJ, Erne, FC, Extermann, P, Fabre, M, Faccini, R, Falagan, MA, Falciano, S, Favara, A, Fay, J, Fedin, O, Felcini, M, Ferguson, T, Ferroni, F, Fesefeldt, H, Fiandrini, E, Field, JH, Filthaut, F, Fisher, PH, Fisk, I, Forconi, G, Fredj, L, Freudenreich, K, Furetta, C, Galaktionov, Y, Ganguli, SN, Garcia-Abia, P, Gataullin, M, Gau, SS, Gentile, S, Gheordanescu, N, Giagu, S, Goldfarb, S, Goldstein, J, Gong, ZF, Gougas, A, Gratta, G, Gruenewald, MW, van Gulik, R, Gupta, VK, Gurtu, A, Gutay, LJ, Haas, D, Hartmann, B, Hasan, A, Hatzifotiadou, D, Hebbeker, T, Hervé, A, Hidas, P, Hirschfelder, J, van Hoek, WC, Hofer, H, Hoorani, H, Hou, SR, Hu, G, Iashvili, I, Jin, BN, Jones, LW, de Jong, P, Josa-Mutuberria, I, Khan, RA, Kamrad, D, Kapustinsky, JS, Kaur, M, Kienzle-Focacci, MN, Kim, D, Kim, DH, Kim, JK, Kim, SC, Kinnison, WW, Kirkby, A, Kirkby, D, Kirkby, J, Kiss, D, Kittel, W, Klimentov, A, König, AC, Kopp, A, Korolko, I, Koutsenko, V, Kraemer, RW, Krenz, W, Kunin, A, Lacenter, P, Ladron de Guevara, P, Laktineh, I, Landi, G, Lapoint, C, Lassila-Perini, K, Laurikainen, P, Lavorato, A, Lebeau, M, Lebedev, A, Lebrun, P, Lecomte, P, Lecoq, P, Le Coultre, P, Lee, HJ, Le Goff, JM, Leiste, R, Leonardi, E, Levtchenko, P, Li, C, Lin, CH, Lin, WT, Linde, FL, Lista, L, Liu, ZA, Lohmann, W, Longo, E, Lu, W, Lu, YS, Lubelsmeyer, K, Luci, C, Luckey, D, Luminari, L, Lustermann, W, Ma, WG, Maity, M, Majumder, G, Malgeri, L, Malinin, A, Maña, C, Mangeol, D, Marchesini, P, Marian, G, Marin, A, Martin, JP, Marzano, F, Massaro, GGG, Mazumdar, K, McNeil, RR, Mele, S, Merola, L, Meschini, M, Metzger, WJ, von der Mey, M, Migani, D, Mihul, A, van Mil, AJW, Milcent, H, Mirabelli, G, Mnich, J, Molnar, P, Monteleoni, B, Moore, R, Moulik, T, Mount, R, Muanza, GS, Muheim, F, Muijs, AJM, Nahn, S, Napolitano, M, Nessi-Tedaldi, F, Newman, H, Niessen, T, Nippe, A, Nisati, A, Nowak, H, Oh, YD, Organtini, G, Ostonen, R, Palit, S, Palomares, C, Pandoulas, D, Paoletti, S, Paolucci, P, Park, HK, Park, IH, Pascale, G, Passaleva, G, Patricelli, S, Paul, T, Pauluzzi, M, Paus, C, Pauss, F, Peach, D, Pedace, M, Pei, YJ, Pensotti, S, Perret-Gallix, D, Petersen, B, Petrak, S, Pevsner, A, Piccolo, D, Pieri, M, Piroué, PA, Pistolesi, E, Plyaskin, V, Pohl, M, Pojidaev, V, Postema, H, Pothier, J, Produit, N, Prokofiev, D, Quartieri, J, Rahal-Callot, G, Raja, N, Rancoita, PG, Rattaggi, M, Raven, G, Razis, P, Ren, D, Rescigno, M, Reucroft, S, van Rhee, T, Riemann, S, Riles, K, Robohm, A, Rodin, J, Roe, BP, Romero, L, Rosier-Lees, S, Roth, S, Rubio, JA, Ruschmeier, D, Rykaczewski, H, Sakar, S, Salicio, J, Sanchez, E, Sanders, MP, Sarakinos, ME, Schäfer, C, Schegelsky, V, Schmidt-Kaerst, S, Schmitz, D, Scholz, N, Schopper, H, Schotanus, DJ, Schwenke, J, Schwering, G, Sciacca, C, Sciarrino, D, Servoli, L, Shevchenko, S, Shivarov, N, Shoutko, V, Shukla, J, Shumilov, E, Shvorob, A, Siedenburg, T, Son, D, Smith, B, Spillantini, P, Steuer, M, Stickland, DP, Stone, A, Stone, H, Stoyanov, B, Straessner, A, Sudhakar, K, Sultanov, G, Sun, LZ, Susinno, GF, Suter, H, Swain, JD, Tang, XW, Tauscher, L, Taylor, L, Timmermans, C, Ting, SCC, Ting, SM, Tonwar, SC, Tóth, J, Tully, CG, Tung, KL, Uchida, Y, Ulbricht, J, Valente, E, Vesztergombi, G, Vetlitsky, I, Viertel, G, Vivargent, M, Vlachos, S, Vogel, H, Vogt, H, Vorobiev, I, Vorobyov, AA, Vorvolakos, A, Wadhwa, M, Wallraff, W, Wang, JC, Wang, XL, Wang, ZM, Weber, A, Wu, SX, Wynhoff, S, Xu, J, Xu, ZZ, Yang, BZ, Yang, CG, Yang, HJ, Yang, M, Ye, JB, Yeh, SC, You, JM, Zalite, A, Zalite, Y, Zemp, P, Zeng, Y, Zhang, ZP, Zhou, B, Zhu, GY, Zhu, RY, Zichichi, A, Ziegler, F & Zilizi, G 1998, 'Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e⁺e^- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions', Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 436, no. 3-4, pp. 437-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3

TY - JOUR

T1 - Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e+e- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions

AU - Acciarri, M.

AU - Adriani, O.

AU - Aguilar-Benitez, M.

AU - Ahlen, S.

AU - Alcaraz, J.

AU - Alemanni, G.

AU - Allaby, J.

AU - Aloisio, A.

AU - Alviggi, M. G.

AU - Ambrosi, G.

AU - Anderhub, H.

AU - Andreev, V. P.

AU - Angelescu, T.

AU - Anselmo, F.

AU - Arefiev, A.

AU - Azemoon, T.

AU - Aziz, T.

AU - Bagnaia, P.

AU - Baksay, L.

AU - Banerjee, S.

AU - Banicz, K.

AU - Barczyk, A.

AU - Barillere, R.

AU - Barone, L.

AU - Bartalini, P.

AU - Baschirotto, A.

AU - Basile, M.

AU - Battiston, R.

AU - Bay, A.

AU - Becattini, F.

AU - Becker, U.

AU - Behner, F.

AU - Berdugo, J.

AU - Berges, P.

AU - Bertucci, B.

AU - Betev, B. L.

AU - Bhattacharya, S.

AU - Biasini, M.

AU - Biland, A.

AU - Bilei, G. M.

AU - Blaising, J. J.

AU - Blyth, S. C.

AU - Bobbink, G. J.

AU - Bock, R.

AU - Böhm, A.

AU - Boldizsar, L.

AU - Borgia, B.

AU - Bourilkov, D.

AU - Bourquin, M.

AU - Braccini, S.

AU - Branson, J. G.

AU - Brigljevic, V.

AU - Brock, I. C.

AU - Buffini, A.

AU - Buijs, A.

AU - Burger, J. D.

AU - Burger, W. J.

AU - Busenitz, J.

AU - Button, A.

AU - Cai, X. D.

AU - Campanelli, M.

AU - Capell, M.

AU - Cara Romeo, G.

AU - Carlino, G.

AU - Cartacci, A. M.

AU - Casaus, J.

AU - Castellini, G.

AU - Cavallari, F.

AU - Cavallo, N.

AU - Cecchi, C.

AU - Cerrada, M.

AU - Cesaroni, F.

AU - Chamizo, M.

AU - Chang, Y. H.

AU - Chaturvedi, U. K.

AU - Chemarin, M.

AU - Chen, A.

AU - Chen, G.

AU - Chen, G. M.

AU - Chen, H. F.

AU - Chen, H. S.

AU - Chereau, X.

AU - Chiefari, G.

AU - Chien, C. Y.

AU - Cifarelli, L.

AU - Cindolo, F.

AU - Civinini, C.

AU - Clare, I.

AU - Clare, R.

AU - Coignet, G.

AU - Colijn, A. P.

AU - Colino, N.

AU - Costantini, S.

AU - Cotorobai, F.

AU - de la Cruz, B.

AU - Csilling, A.

AU - Dai, T. S.

AU - D'Alessandro, R.

AU - de Asmundis, R.

AU - Degré, A.

AU - Deiters, K.

AU - della Volpe, D.

AU - Denes, P.

AU - DeNotaristefani, F.

AU - Diemoz, M.

AU - van Dierendonck, D.

AU - di Lodovico, F.

AU - Dionisi, C.

AU - Dittmar, M.

AU - Dominguez, A.

AU - Doria, A.

AU - Dova, M. T.

AU - Duchesneau, D.

AU - Duinker, P.

AU - Duran, I.

AU - Easo, S.

AU - El Mamouni, H.

AU - Engler, A.

AU - Eppling, F. J.

AU - Erne, F. C.

AU - Extermann, P.

AU - Fabre, M.

AU - Faccini, R.

AU - Falagan, M. A.

AU - Falciano, S.

AU - Favara, A.

AU - Fay, J.

AU - Fedin, O.

AU - Felcini, M.

AU - Ferguson, T.

AU - Ferroni, F.

AU - Fesefeldt, H.

AU - Fiandrini, E.

AU - Field, J. H.

AU - Filthaut, F.

AU - Fisher, P. H.

AU - Fisk, I.

AU - Forconi, G.

AU - Fredj, L.

AU - Freudenreich, K.

AU - Furetta, C.

AU - Galaktionov, Y.

AU - Ganguli, S. N.

AU - Garcia-Abia, P.

AU - Gataullin, M.

AU - Gau, S. S.

AU - Gentile, S.

AU - Gheordanescu, N.

AU - Giagu, S.

AU - Goldfarb, S.

AU - Goldstein, J.

AU - Gong, Z. F.

AU - Gougas, A.

AU - Gratta, G.

AU - Gruenewald, M. W.

AU - van Gulik, R.

AU - Gupta, V. K.

AU - Gurtu, A.

AU - Gutay, L. J.

AU - Haas, D.

AU - Hartmann, B.

AU - Hasan, A.

AU - Hatzifotiadou, D.

AU - Hebbeker, T.

AU - Hervé, A.

AU - Hidas, P.

AU - Hirschfelder, J.

AU - van Hoek, W. C.

AU - Hofer, H.

AU - Hoorani, H.

AU - Hou, S. R.

AU - Hu, G.

AU - Iashvili, I.

AU - Jin, B. N.

AU - Jones, L. W.

AU - de Jong, P.

AU - Josa-Mutuberria, I.

AU - Khan, R. A.

AU - Kamrad, D.

AU - Kapustinsky, J. S.

AU - Kaur, M.

AU - Kienzle-Focacci, M. N.

AU - Kim, D.

AU - Kim, D. H.

AU - Kim, J. K.

AU - Kim, S. C.

AU - Kinnison, W. W.

AU - Kirkby, A.

AU - Kirkby, D.

AU - Kirkby, J.

AU - Kiss, D.

AU - Kittel, W.

AU - Klimentov, A.

AU - König, A. C.

AU - Kopp, A.

AU - Korolko, I.

AU - Koutsenko, V.

AU - Kraemer, R. W.

AU - Krenz, W.

AU - Kunin, A.

AU - Lacenter, P.

AU - Ladron de Guevara, P.

AU - Laktineh, I.

AU - Landi, G.

AU - Lapoint, C.

AU - Lassila-Perini, K.

AU - Laurikainen, P.

AU - Lavorato, A.

AU - Lebeau, M.

AU - Lebedev, A.

AU - Lebrun, P.

AU - Lecomte, P.

AU - Lecoq, P.

AU - Le Coultre, P.

AU - Lee, H. J.

AU - Le Goff, J. M.

AU - Leiste, R.

AU - Leonardi, E.

AU - Levtchenko, P.

AU - Li, C.

AU - Lin, C. H.

AU - Lin, W. T.

AU - Linde, F. L.

AU - Lista, L.

AU - Liu, Z. A.

AU - Lohmann, W.

AU - Longo, E.

AU - Lu, W.

AU - Lu, Y. S.

AU - Lubelsmeyer, K.

AU - Luci, C.

AU - Luckey, D.

AU - Luminari, L.

AU - Lustermann, W.

AU - Ma, W. G.

AU - Maity, M.

AU - Majumder, G.

AU - Malgeri, L.

AU - Malinin, A.

AU - Maña, C.

AU - Mangeol, D.

AU - Marchesini, P.

AU - Marian, G.

AU - Marin, A.

AU - Martin, J. P.

AU - Marzano, F.

AU - Massaro, G. G.G.

AU - Mazumdar, K.

AU - McNeil, R. R.

AU - Mele, S.

AU - Merola, L.

AU - Meschini, M.

AU - Metzger, W. J.

AU - von der Mey, M.

AU - Migani, D.

AU - Mihul, A.

AU - van Mil, A. J.W.

AU - Milcent, H.

AU - Mirabelli, G.

AU - Mnich, J.

AU - Molnar, P.

AU - Monteleoni, B.

AU - Moore, R.

AU - Moulik, T.

AU - Mount, R.

AU - Muanza, G. S.

AU - Muheim, F.

AU - Muijs, A. J.M.

AU - Nahn, S.

AU - Napolitano, M.

AU - Nessi-Tedaldi, F.

AU - Newman, H.

AU - Niessen, T.

AU - Nippe, A.

AU - Nisati, A.

AU - Nowak, H.

AU - Oh, Y. D.

AU - Organtini, G.

AU - Ostonen, R.

AU - Palit, S.

AU - Palomares, C.

AU - Pandoulas, D.

AU - Paoletti, S.

AU - Paolucci, P.

AU - Park, H. K.

AU - Park, I. H.

AU - Pascale, G.

AU - Passaleva, G.

AU - Patricelli, S.

AU - Paul, T.

AU - Pauluzzi, M.

AU - Paus, C.

AU - Pauss, F.

AU - Peach, D.

AU - Pedace, M.

AU - Pei, Y. J.

AU - Pensotti, S.

AU - Perret-Gallix, D.

AU - Petersen, B.

AU - Petrak, S.

AU - Pevsner, A.

AU - Piccolo, D.

AU - Pieri, M.

AU - Piroué, P. A.

AU - Pistolesi, E.

AU - Plyaskin, V.

AU - Pohl, M.

AU - Pojidaev, V.

AU - Postema, H.

AU - Pothier, J.

AU - Produit, N.

AU - Prokofiev, D.

AU - Quartieri, J.

AU - Rahal-Callot, G.

AU - Raja, N.

AU - Rancoita, P. G.

AU - Rattaggi, M.

AU - Raven, G.

AU - Razis, P.

AU - Ren, D.

AU - Rescigno, M.

AU - Reucroft, S.

AU - van Rhee, T.

AU - Riemann, S.

AU - Riles, K.

AU - Robohm, A.

AU - Rodin, J.

AU - Roe, B. P.

AU - Romero, L.

AU - Rosier-Lees, S.

AU - Roth, S.

AU - Rubio, J. A.

AU - Ruschmeier, D.

AU - Rykaczewski, H.

AU - Sakar, S.

AU - Salicio, J.

AU - Sanchez, E.

AU - Sanders, M. P.

AU - Sarakinos, M. E.

AU - Schäfer, C.

AU - Schegelsky, V.

AU - Schmidt-Kaerst, S.

AU - Schmitz, D.

AU - Scholz, N.

AU - Schopper, H.

AU - Schotanus, D. J.

AU - Schwenke, J.

AU - Schwering, G.

AU - Sciacca, C.

AU - Sciarrino, D.

AU - Servoli, L.

AU - Shevchenko, S.

AU - Shivarov, N.

AU - Shoutko, V.

AU - Shukla, J.

AU - Shumilov, E.

AU - Shvorob, A.

AU - Siedenburg, T.

AU - Son, D.

AU - Smith, B.

AU - Spillantini, P.

AU - Steuer, M.

AU - Stickland, D. P.

AU - Stone, A.

AU - Stone, H.

AU - Stoyanov, B.

AU - Straessner, A.

AU - Sudhakar, K.

AU - Sultanov, G.

AU - Sun, L. Z.

AU - Susinno, G. F.

AU - Suter, H.

AU - Swain, J. D.

AU - Tang, X. W.

AU - Tauscher, L.

AU - Taylor, L.

AU - Timmermans, C.

AU - Ting, S. C.C.

AU - Ting, S. M.

AU - Tonwar, S. C.

AU - Tóth, J.

AU - Tully, Christopher George

AU - Tung, K. L.

AU - Uchida, Y.

AU - Ulbricht, J.

AU - Valente, E.

AU - Vesztergombi, G.

AU - Vetlitsky, I.

AU - Viertel, G.

AU - Vivargent, M.

AU - Vlachos, S.

AU - Vogel, H.

AU - Vogt, H.

AU - Vorobiev, I.

AU - Vorobyov, A. A.

AU - Vorvolakos, A.

AU - Wadhwa, M.

AU - Wallraff, W.

AU - Wang, J. C.

AU - Wang, X. L.

AU - Wang, Z. M.

AU - Weber, A.

AU - Wu, S. X.

AU - Wynhoff, S.

AU - Xu, J.

AU - Xu, Z. Z.

AU - Yang, B. Z.

AU - Yang, C. G.

AU - Yang, H. J.

AU - Yang, M.

AU - Ye, J. B.

AU - Yeh, S. C.

AU - You, J. M.

AU - Zalite, A.

AU - Zalite, Y.

AU - Zemp, P.

AU - Zeng, Y.

AU - Zhang, Z. P.

AU - Zhou, B.

AU - Zhu, G. Y.

AU - Zhu, R. Y.

AU - Zichichi, A.

AU - Ziegler, F.

AU - Zilizi, G.

PY - 1998/9/24

Y1 - 1998/9/24

N2 - We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 55.47 pb-1 collected at an average centre-of-mass energy of 182.68 GeV, we select 824 four-fermion events with pairs of hadronic jets or pairs of leptons with high invariant masses. Branching fractions of W decays into different fermion-antifermion pairs are determined. Assuming charged-current lepton universality, the branching fraction for hadronic W decays is measured to be: B(W → hadrons) = 70.1 ± 1.3 (stat.) ± 0.4 (syst.)%. Combining all final states the total cross section for W-pair production is measured to be: σww = 16.53 ± 0.67 (stat.) + 0.26 (syst.) pb.

AB - We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 55.47 pb-1 collected at an average centre-of-mass energy of 182.68 GeV, we select 824 four-fermion events with pairs of hadronic jets or pairs of leptons with high invariant masses. Branching fractions of W decays into different fermion-antifermion pairs are determined. Assuming charged-current lepton universality, the branching fraction for hadronic W decays is measured to be: B(W → hadrons) = 70.1 ± 1.3 (stat.) ± 0.4 (syst.)%. Combining all final states the total cross section for W-pair production is measured to be: σww = 16.53 ± 0.67 (stat.) + 0.26 (syst.) pb.

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U2 - 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3

DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01036-3

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:0345982288

SN - 0370-2693

VL - 436

SP - 437

EP - 452

JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

IS - 3-4

ER -

Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e⁺e^- interactions at √s = 183 GeV and W-decay branching fractions

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