Journal article
Precise determination of the Z resonance parameters at LEP: "Zedometry"
G Abbiendi, C Ainsley, PF Akesson, G Alexander, J Allison, G Anagnostou, KJ Anderson, S Arcelli, S Asai, SF Ashby, D Axen, G Azuelos, I Bailey, AH Ball, E Barberio, RJ Barlow, T Behnke, KW Bell, G Bella, A Bellerive Show all
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | SPRINGER | Published : 2001
Abstract
This final analysis of hadronic and leptonic cross-sections and of leptonic forward-backward asymmetries in e+e- collisions with the OPAL detector makes use of the full LEP 1 data sample comprising 161pb-1 of integrated luminosity and 4.5 × 106 selected Z decays. An interpretation of the data in terms of contributions from pure Z exchange and from γ/Z interference allows the parameters of the Z resonance to be determined in a model-independent way. Our results are in good agreement with lepton universality and consistent with the vector and axial-vector couplings predicted in the Standard Model. A fit to the complete dataset yields the fundamental Z resonance parameters: mz = (91.1852 ± 0.00..
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