| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:0708.1311 ; CERN-PH-EP-2007-027 ; OPAL-PR-424 ; CERN-PH-EP-2007-027 |
| Title | Measurement of the $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^-$ cross section and W decay branching fractions at LEP |
| Related title | CROSS-SECTION |
| Author(s) |
Abbiendi, G. ; Ainsley, C. ; Akesson, P.F. ; Alexander, G. ; Anagnostou, G. ; Anderson, K.J. ; Asai, S. ; Axen, D. ; Bailey, I. ; Barberio, E. ; Barillari, T. ; Barlow, R.J. ; Batley, R.J. ; Bechtle, P. ; Behnke, T. ; Bell, Kenneth Watson ; Bell, P.J. ; Bella, G. ; Bellerive, A. ; Benelli, G. ; Bethke, S. ; Biebel, O. ; Boeriu, O. ; Bock, P. ; Boutemeur, M. ; Braibant, S. ; Brown, Robert M. ; Burckhart, H.J. ; Campana, S. ; Capiluppi, P. ; Carnegie, R.K. ; Carter, A.A. ; Carter, J.R. ; Chang, C.Y. ; Charlton, D.G. ; Ciocca, C. ; Csilling, A. ; Cuffiani, M. ; Dado, S. ; Dallavalle, M. ; De Roeck, A. ; De Wolf, E.A. ; Desch, K. ; Dienes, B. ; Dubbert, J. ; Duchovni, E. ; Duckeck, G. ; Duerdoth, I.P. ; Etzion, E. ; Fabbri, F. ; Ferrari, P. ; Fiedler, F. ; Fleck, I. ; Ford, M. ; Frey, A. ; Gagnon, P. ; Gary, John William ; Geich-Gimbel, C. ; Giacomelli, G. ; Giacomelli, P. ; Giunta, Marina ; Goldberg, J. ; Gross, E. ; Grunhaus, J. ; Gruw, M. ; Gupta, A. ; Hajdu, C. ; Hamann, M. ; Hanson, G.G. ; Harel, A. ; Hauschild, M. ; Hawkes, C.M. ; Hawkings, R. ; Herten, G. ; Heuer, R.D. ; Hill, J.C. ; Horvath, D. ; Igo-Kemenes, P. ; Ishii, K. ; Jeremie, H. ; Jovanovic, P. ; Junk, T.R. ; Kanzaki, J. ; Karlen, D. ; Kawagoe, K. ; Kawamoto, T. ; Keeler, R.K. ; Kellogg, R.G. ; Kennedy, B.W. ; Kluth, S. ; Kobayashi, T. ; Kobel, M. ; Komamiya, S. ; Kramer, T. ; Krasznahorkay, A., Jr. ; Krieger, P. ; von Krogh, J. ; Kuhl, T. ; Kupper, M. ; Lafferty, G.D. ; Landsman, H. ; Lanske, D. ; Lellouch, D. ; Lettso, J. ; Levinson, L. ; Lillich, J. ; Lloyd, S.L. ; Loebinger, F.K. ; Lu, J. ; Ludwig, A. ; Ludwig, J. ; Mader, W. ; Marcellini, S. ; Martin, A.J. ; Mashimo, T. ; Mattig, Peter ; McKenna, J. ; McPherson, R.A. ; Meijers, F. ; Menges, W. ; Merritt, F.S. ; Mes, H. ; Meyer, N. ; Michelini, A. ; Mihara, S. ; Mikenberg, G. ; Miller, D.J. ; Mohr, W. ; Mori, T. ; Mutter, A. ; Nagai, K. ; Nakamura, I. ; Nanjo, H. ; Neal, H.A. ; O'Neale, S.W. ; Oh, A. ; Oreglia, M.J. ; Orito, S. ; Pahl, C. ; Pasztor, G. ; Pater, J.R. ; Pilcher, J.E. ; Pinfold, J. ; Plane, D.E. ; Pooth, O. ; Przybycien, M. ; Quadt, A. ; Rabbertz, K. ; Rembser, C. ; Renkel, P. ; Roney, J.M. ; Rossi, A.M. ; Rozen, Y. ; Runge, K. ; Sachs, K. ; Saeki, T. ; Sarkisyan, E.K.G. ; Schaile, A.D. ; Schaile, O. ; Scharff-Hansen, P. ; Schieck, J. ; Schorner-Sadenius, T. ; Schroder, M. ; Schumacher, M. ; Seuster, R. ; Shears, T.G. ; Shen, B.C. ; Sherwood, P. ; Skuja, A. ; Smith, A.M. ; Sobie, R. ; Soldner-Rembold, S. ; Spano, F. ; Stahl, A. ; Strom, David M. ; Strohmer, R. ; Tarem, S. ; Tasevsky, M. ; Teuscher, R. ; Thomson, M.A. ; Torrence, E. ; Toya, D. ; Trigger, I. ; Trocsanyi, Z. ; Tsur, E. ; Turner-Watson, M.F. ; Ueda, I. ; Ujvari, B. ; Vollmer, C.F. ; Vannerem, P. ; Vertesi, R. ; Verzocchi, M. ; Voss, H. ; Vossebeld, J. ; Ward, C.P. ; Ward, D.R. ; Watkins, P.M. ; Watson, A.T. ; Watson, N.K. ; Wells, P.S. ; Wengler, T. ; Wermes, N. ; Wilson, G.W. ; Wilson, J.A. ; Wolf, G. ; Wyatt, T.R. ; Yamashita, S. ; Zer-Zion, D. ; Zivkovic, Lidija |
| Affiliation | (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham) ; (Dipartimento di Fisica dell Universita di Bologna and INFN) ; (Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Bonn) ; (Department of Physics, University of California) ; (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) ; (Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Physics, Department of Physics, Carleton University) ; (Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago) ; (Fakultat fur Physik, Albert Ludwigs Universitat, Freiburg) ; (Physikalisches Institut, Universitat Heidelberg) ; (Indiana University, Department of Physics) ; (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London,) ; (Technische Hochschule Aachen, III Physikalisches Institut, Aachen) ; (University College London) ; (School of Physics and Astronomy, Schuster Laboratory, Manchester) ; (Department of Physics, University of Maryland) ; (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de Montreal) ; (University of Oregon, Department of Physics) ; (CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) ; (Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) ; (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University) ; (International Centre for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of Tokyo) ; (Kobe University) ; (Particle Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science) ; (Universitat Hamburg/DESY) ; (University of Victoria, Department of Physics) ; (University of British Columbia, Department of Physics) ; (University of Alberta, Department of Physics) ; (Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest) ; (Institute of Nuclear Research, Hungary) ; (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) ; (Max-Planck-Institute fur Physik, Munchen) ; (Yale University,Department of Physics) |
| Publication | 2007 |
| Imprint | 22 Jul 2007 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Note | This paper is dedicated to the memory of Ben Shen This paper is dedicated to the memory of Ben Shen |
| In: | Eur. Phys. J. C 52 (2007) 767-785 |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0442-0 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LEP ; OPAL |
| Abstract | From a total data sample of 701.1 pb^-1 recorded with e+e- centre-of-mass energies of sqrt = 161-209 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP, 11693 W-pair candidate events are selected. These data are used to obtain measurements of the W-pair production cross sections at 10 different centre-of-mass energies. The ratio of the measured cross sections to the Standard Model expectation is found to be: data/SM = 1.002 +- 0.011(stat.) +- 0.007(syst.) +- 0.005(theory), where the uncertainties are statistical, experimental systematics and theory systematics respectively. The data are used to determine the W boson branching fractions, which are found to be consistent with lepton universality of the charged current interaction. Assuming lepton universality, the branching ratio to hadrons is determined to be 67.41 +- 0.37(stat.) +- 0.23(syst.)%, from which the CKM matrix element Vcs is determined to be 0.96+-0.017(stat.)+-0.012(syst.). The differential cross section as a function of the W^- production angle is measured for the qqev and qqmv final states. The results described in this paper are consistent with the expectations from the Standard Model. |
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