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Study of Z boson pair production in e+e- colisions at LEP at √s = 189 GeV

  • M. Acciarri
  • , P. Achard
  • , O. Adriani
  • , M. Aguilar-Benitez
  • , 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
  • , A. Balandras
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Zichichi, F. Ziegler, G. Zilizi, M. Zöller
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Geneva
  • CIEMAT
  • University of Lausanne
  • CERN
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Louisiana State University
  • Nuclear Physics Institute
  • Institute of Atomic Physics and University of Bucharest
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • University of Alabama
  • IN2P3-CNRS
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • University of Perugia
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Utrecht University
  • University of Salento
  • National Central University
  • ICSC - World Laboratory
  • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • University of Salerno
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Princeton University
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • University of Basel
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Northeastern University
  • Purdue University
  • University of Cyprus
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • University of Helsinki
  • University of Debrecen
  • University of Hamburg
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Tsing Hua University

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Abstract

The pair production of Z bosons is studied using the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP in 1998 in e+e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. All the visible final states are considered and the cross section of this process is measured to be 0.74-0.14 +0.15(stat.) ± 0.04(syst.)pb. Final states containing b quarks are enhanced by a dedicated selection and their production cross section is found to be 0.18-0.07 +0.09(stat.) ± 0.02(syst.)pb. Both results are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions. Limits on anomalous couplings between neutral gauge bosons are derived from these measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)363-375
Number of pages13
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume465
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

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