Measurement of the partial widths of the Z into up- and down-type quarks

G Abbiendi; C Ainsley; PF Åkesson; G Alexander; J Allison; P Amaral; G Anagnostou; KJ Anderson; S Arcelli; S Asai; D Axen; G Azuelos; I Bailey; E Barberio; T Barillari; RJ Barlow; RJ Batley; P Bechtle; T Behnke; KW Bell; PJ Bell; G Bella; A Bellerive; G Benelli; S Bethke; O Biebel; O Boeriu; P Bock; M Boutemeur; S Braibant; L Brigliadori; RM Brown; K Buesser; HJ Burckhart; S Campana; RK Carnegie; AA Carter; JR Carter; CY Chang; DG Charlton; C Ciocca; A Csilling; M Cuffiani; S Dado; A de Roeck; EA de Wolf; K Desch; B Dienes; M Donkers; M Doucet; J Dubbert; E Duchovni; G Duckeck; IP Duerdoth; E Etzion; F Fabbri; L Feld; P Ferrari; F Fiedler; I Fleck; M Ford; A Frey; P Gagnon; JW Gary; G Gaycken; C Geich-Gimbel; G Giacomelli; P Giacomelli; M Giunta; J Goldberg; E Gross; J Grunhaus; M Gruwé; PO Günther; A Gupta; C Hajdu; M Hamann; GG Hanson; A Harel; M Hauschild; CM Hawkes; R Hawkings; RJ Hemingway; G Herten; RD Heuer; JC Hill; K Hoffman; D Horváth; P Hüntemeyer; P Igo-Kemenes; K Ishii; H Jeremie; P Jovanovic; TR Junk; N Kanaya; J Kanzaki; D Karlen; K Kawagoe; T Kawamoto; RK Keeler

Journal article

Measurement of the partial widths of the Z into up- and down-type quarks

G Abbiendi, C Ainsley, PF Åkesson, G Alexander, J Allison, P Amaral, G Anagnostou, KJ Anderson, S Arcelli, S Asai, D Axen, G Azuelos, I Bailey, E Barberio, T Barillari, RJ Barlow, RJ Batley, P Bechtle, T Behnke, KW Bell Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | ELSEVIER | Published : 2004

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.02.046

Abstract

Using the entire OPAL LEP1 on-peak Z hadronic decay sample, Z→qq̄γ decays were selected by tagging hadronic final states with isolated photon candidates in the electromagnetic calorimeter. Combining the measured rates of Z→qq̄γ decays with the total rate of hadronic Z decays permits the simultaneous determination of the widths of the Z into up- and down-type quarks. The values obtained, with total errors, were Γu=300+19-18 MeVandΓd= 381+12-12 MeV. The results are in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.