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Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e⁺e⁻ interactions at √s = 172 GeV and W-decay branching fractions

ContributorsL3 Collaboration
Published inPhysics Letters. B, vol. 407, p. 419-431
Publication date1997
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We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP at an average centre-of-mass energy of 172.13 GeV. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 10.25 pb⁻¹ we select 110 four-fermion events with pairs of hadronic jets or leptons with high invariant masses. Branching fractions of W decays into different fermion-antifermion pairs are determined with and without the assumption of charged-current lepton universality. The branching fraction for hadronic W decays is measured to be: B(W → hadrons) = 64.2-3.8+3.7 (stat.) ± 0.5 (syst.) %. Combining all final states the total cross section for W-pair production is measured to be: σWW = 12.27−1.32+1.41 (stat.) ± 0.23 (syst.) pb. The results are in good agreement with the Standard Model.

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L3 Collaboration. Measurement of W-pair cross sections in e⁺e⁻ interactions at √s = 172 GeV and W-decay branching fractions. In: Physics Letters. B, 1997, vol. 407, p. 419–431. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00802-2
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00802-2
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