Al, K Ackerstaff Et, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Altekamp, N, Anderson, K J, Anderson, S, ...
The inclusive production of prompt photons with energy above 10 GeV is measured using the OPAL detector in hadronic Z^0 decays at LEP. In contrast to previous measurements, the prompt photons were...
Measurement of f(c -> D^*+ X), f(b -> D^*+ X) and Gamma_cc(bar)/Gamma_had using D^*+/- Mesons (2008)
Al, K Ackerstaff Et, Ackerstaff, K, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Altekamp, N, Anderson, K J, ...
The production rates of D^*+/- mesons in charm and bottom events at centre-of-mass energies of about 91 GeV and the partial width of primary cc(bar) pairs in hadronic Z^0 decays have been measured at...
A Measurement of the B_s^0 Lifetime using Reconstructed D_s^- Mesons (2008)
Al, K Ackerstaff Et, Ackerstaff, K, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Altekamp, N, Anderson, K J, ...
We report a measurement of the B^0_s meson lifetime from B_s^0 -> D^-_s X decays, where D_s^- mesons are reconstructed in the D_s^- -> phi pi^- and D_s^- -> K^{*0} K^- decay channels. From...
Al, K Ackerstaff Et, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Altekamp, N, Anderson, K J, Anderson, S, ...
Production of events with hadronic and leptonic final states has been measured in e^+e^- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 130-172 GeV, using the OPAL detector at LEP. Cross-sections and...
Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance (2006)
Schael, S, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17...
Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance (2006)
Schael, S, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
For the first time at LEP the production of prompt photons is studied in the collisions of quasi-real photons using the OPAL data taken at e+e- centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV....
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A study of Z-boson pair production in e+e- annihilation at center-of-mass energies between 190 GeV and 209 GeV is reported. Final states containing only leptons, (l+l-l+l- and l+l-nn), quark and...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A study of Z-boson pair production in e+e- annihilation at center-of-mass energies between 190 GeV and 209 GeV is reported. Final states containing only leptons, (l+l-l+l- and l+l-nn), quark and...
Search for R-parity violating decays of sfermions at LEP (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A search for pair-produced scalar fermions under the assumption that R-parity is not conserved has been performed using data collected with the OPAL detector at LEP. The data samples analysed...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
We present the first experimental results based on the jet boost algorithm, a technique to select unbiased samples of gluon jets in e+e- annihilations, i.e. gluon jets free of biases introduced by...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A study of Z-boson pair production in e+e- annihilation at center-of-mass energies between 190 GeV and 209 GeV is reported. Final states containing only leptons, (l+l-l+l- and l+l-nn), quark and...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
Cross-section and angular distributions for hadronic and lepton-pair final states in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV and 209 GeV, measured with the OPAL detector at LEP,...
A Study of $W^{+}W^{-}\gamma$ Events at LEP (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A study of W+W- events accomanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with being two on-shell W bosons and an isolated photon are selected from...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
In total 1317 di-lepton events with significant missing transverse momentum were identified in a total data sample of 680 pb-1 collected at e+e- centre-of-mass energies ranging from 183 GeV to 209...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A search for single production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons has been performed using 600.7 pb^-1 of e+e- collision data with sqrt(s)=189--209GeV collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. No evidence...
A study of charm production in beauty decays with the OPAL detector at LEP (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
Using an inclusive method, BR(b -> D\bar{D}X) has been measured in hadronic Z^0 decays with the OPAL detector at LEP. The impact parameter significance of tracks opposite tagged b-jets is used to...
Measurement of charged current triple gauge boson couplings using W pairs at LEP (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
Triple gauge boson couplings are measured from W-pair and single photon events recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at center-of-mass energies between 183 - 209 GeV with a total integrated luminosity...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
Gluon jets with a mean energy of 22 GeV and purity of 95% are selected from hadronic Z0 decay events produced in e+e- annihilations. A subsample of these jets is identified which exhibits a large gap...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Alexander, G, Åkesson, P F, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
For the first time at LEP the production of prompt photons is studied in the collisions of quasi-real photons using the OPAL data taken at e+e- centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV....
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Alexander, G, Åkesson, P F, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
For the first time at LEP the production of prompt photons is studied in the collisions of quasi-real photons using the OPAL data taken at e+e- centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV....
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A search for pair-produced leptoquarks is performed using e+e- collision events collected by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The data sample corresponds...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, Anagnostou, G, ...
A search for stable and long-lived massive particles of electric charge |Q/e|=1 or fractional charges of 2/3, 4/3, and 5/3 is reported using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP, at...
Test of non-commutative QED in the process $e^{+}e^{-} \to \gamma \gamma$ at LEP (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, Anagnostou, G, ...
Non-communicative QED would lead to deviations from the Standard Model depending on a new energy scale $\Delta_{NC}$ and a unique direction in space defined by two angles $\eta$ and $\xi$. Here in...
Bose-Einstein Correlations of $\pi^{0}$ Pairs from Hadronic $Z^{0}$ Decays (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
We observed Bose-Einstein correlation in pi0 pairs produced in Z0 decays using the data sample collected by the OPAL detector at LEP 1 from 1991 to 1995. Using a static Gaussian picture for the pion...
A Measurement of Semileptonic B Decays to Narrow Orbitally-Excited Charm Mesons (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
The decay chain b -> Bbar -> D^{**0} l nu X, D^{**0} -> D^{*+} pi^-, D^{*+} -> D^0 pi^+, D^0 ->(Kpi or K3pi) is identified in a sample of 3.9 million hadronic Z decays collected with the OPAL...
Di-Jet Production in Photon-Photon colisions at $\sqrt{s_{ee}}$ from 189 to 209 GeV (2003)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
Di-jet producion is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons at e+e- centre- of-mass energies sqrt(s)ee from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP. The data were collected with the OPAL detector. Jets are...
Dijet production in photon-photon collisions at s(ee)**(1/2) from 189-GeV to 209-GeV (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
Bose-Einstein correlations of pi0 pairs from hadronic Z0 decays (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
A Study of charm production in beauty decays with the OPAL detector at LEP (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
Measurement of charged current triple gauge boson couplings using W pairs at LEP (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
A Study of W+ W- gamma events at LEP (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
Search for R parity violating decays of scalar fermions at LEP (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
Test of noncommutative QED in the process e+ e- ---> gamma gamma at LEP (2003)
OPAL Collaboration, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Akesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...
A Measurement of the $\tau^{-}\to \mu^{-}\overline{\nu}_{\mu}\nu_{\tau}$ Branching Ratio (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
The tau -> mu nu nu branching ratio has been measured using data collected from 1990 to 1995 by the OPAL detector at the LEP collider. The resulting value of B(tau -> mu nu nu) = 0.1734 +-...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
We have measured the mean charged particle multiplicities separately for bbbar, ccbar and light quark (uubar, ddbar, ssbar) initiated events produced in e+e- annihilations at LEP. The data were...
Multi-Photon Production in $e^{+}e^{-}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 181 - 209 GeV (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
The process e+e- -> gamma gamma (gamma) is studied using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP between the years 1997 and 2000. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 672.3pb-1...
Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Charginos and Neutralinos at LEP (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A search was performed for charginos with masses close to the mass of the lightest neutralino in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 189-209 GeV recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP. Events...
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the OPAL Detector at LEP (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
This paper summarises the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV performed by the OPAL Collaboration at LEP. The consistency of the data...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
The b quark forward-backward asymmetry has been measured using hadronic Z0 decays collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP. Z0 -> bbbar decays were selected using a combination of secondary vertex and...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
We have analysed the data collected by OPAL at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV searching for Higgs boson candidates from the process e/sup +/e/sup -/ to h/sup 0/Z/sup 0/ followed by...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
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 detector at LEP....
Charged Particle Momentum Spectra in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation at $\sqrt{s}$ = 192-209 GeV (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
Charged particle momentum distributions are studied in the reaction e+e- -> hadrons, using data collected with the OPAL detector at centre-of-mass energies from 192 GeV to 209 GeV. The data...
Search for scalar top and scalar bottom quarks at LEP (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
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 the OPAL detector at...
Measurement of Neutral-Current Four-Fermion Production at LEP2 (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
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 183 GeV to 209 GeV....
Inclusive Analysis of the b Quark Fragmentation Function in Z Decays at LEP (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
A study of b quark hadronisation is presented using inclusively reconstructed B hadrons in about four million hadronic Z decays recorded in 1992-2000 with the OPAL detector at LEP. The data are...
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
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 the range of 25-60...
Decay-mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP (2002)
Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, Gideon, Allison, J, Amaral, P, ...
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 GeV and 183-209...