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, C. 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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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)437-452
Number of pages16
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume436
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Sep 1998

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