First measurement of Z/γ* production in Compton scattering of quasi-real photons

被引：9

作者：

Abbiendi, G ^{[1
]}

Ackerstaff, K

Alexander, G

Allison, J

Altekamp, N

Anderson, KJ

Arcelli, S

Asai, S

Ashby, SF

Axen, D

Azuelos, G

Ball, AH

Barberio, E

Barlow, RJ

Bartoldus, R

Batley, JR

Baumann, S

Bechtluft, J

Behnke, T

Bell, KW

Bella, G

Bellerive, A

Bentvelsen, S

Bethke, S

Betts, S

Biebel, O

Biguzzi, A

Bird, SD

Blobel, V

Bloodworth, IJ

Bobinski, M

Bock, P

Bohme, J

Bonacorsi, D

Boutemeur, M

Braibant, S

Bright-Thomas, P

Brigliadori, L

Brown, RM

Burckhart, HJ

Burgard, C

Burgin, R

Capiluppi, P

Carnegie, RK

Carter, AA

Carter, JR

Chang, CY

Charlton, DG

Chrisman, D

Ciocca, C

机构：

[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany

[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA

[6] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England

[7] Carleton Univ, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

[8] Carleton Univ, Ctr Res Particle Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

[9] CERN, European Org Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

[10] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[11] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[12] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

[13] Univ Heidelberg, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

[14] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[15] Univ London Queen Mary & Westfield Coll, London E1 4NS, England

[16] Tech Hsch Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[17] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England

[18] Univ Manchester, Dept Phys, Schuster Lab, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[19] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[20] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada

[21] CLRC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 OQX, Oxon, England

[22] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA

[23] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[24] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[25] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan

[26] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan

[27] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 657, Japan

[28] Brunel Univ, Inst Phys & Environm Sci, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England

[29] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[30] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany

[31] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada

[32] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

[33] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada

[34] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA

[35] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary

[36] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary

[37] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[38] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada

[39] Lajos Kossuth Univ, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 1998年 / 438卷 / 3-4期

基金：

以色列科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;

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D O I：

10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01140-X

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We report the first observation of Z/gamma* production in Compton scattering of quasi-real photons. This is a subprocess of the reaction e(+)e(-) --> e(+)e(-)Z/gamma*, where one of the final state electrons is undetected. Approximately 55 pb(-1) of data collected in the year 1997 at an e(+)e(-) centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP have been analysed. The Z/gamma* from Compton scattering has been detected in the hadronic decay channel. Within well defined kinematic bounds, we measure the product of cross-section and Z/gamma* branching ratio to hadrons to be (0.9 +/- 0.3 +/- 0.1) pb for events with a hadronic mass larger than 60 GeV, dominated by (e)eZ production. In the hadronic mass region between 5 GeV and 60 GeV, dominated by (e)e gamma* production, this product is found to be (4.1 +/- 1.6 +/- 0.6) pb. Our results agree with the predictions of two Monte Carlo event generators, grc4f and PYTHIA. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：391 / 404

页数：14

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