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A Precision measurement of the number of neutrino species

ContributorsL3 Collab.
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 249, no. 2, p. 341-352
Publication date1990
Abstract

We have measured the cross section for e + e − →hadrons over the center of mass energy range of the Z 0 peak, from 88.22 to 95.03 GeV. We determine the Z 0 mass M z =91.164±0.013 (experiment) ±0.030 (LEP) GeV. Within the framework of the standard model we determine the invisible width, Γ invisible =0.502±0.018 GeV, and the number of light neutrino species, N ν =3.01±0.11. We exclude the existence of a supersymmetric scalar neutrino having a mass less than 31.4 GeV, at the 95% confidence level. We performed a model independent combined fit to the e + e − →hadrons and e + e − → μ + μ − data to determine total width, leptonic width and hadronic width of the Z 0 .

Keywords
  • Electron positron: colliding beams
  • Colliding beams: electron positron
  • Electron positron: annihilation
  • Annihilation: electron positron
  • Z0: electroproduction
  • Electroproduction: Z0
  • Z0: mass
  • Mass: Z0
  • Z0: width
  • Cross section: hadronic
  • Neutrino: flavor
  • Postulated particle: sneutrino
  • Mass: sneutrino
  • Sneutrino: mass
  • L3
  • Experimental results
  • CERN LEP Stor
  • 88.22-95.03 GeV-cms
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L3 Collab. A Precision measurement of the number of neutrino species. In: Physics letters. B, 1990, vol. 249, n° 2, p. 341–352. doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)91267-f
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