Measurement of τ polarisation at LEP

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Acciarri, M
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Ahlen, S
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillere, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Baschirotto, A
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Bilei, GM
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Bohm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
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[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, CNRS, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[9] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[16] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[17] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[19] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[20] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] FBLJA Project, World Lab, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[26] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[27] Res Inst High Energy Phys, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[28] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[29] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[30] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[31] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[32] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[33] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[34] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[37] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[38] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[41] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[43] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[44] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[45] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[49] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] INFN, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00406-7
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摘要
Using the data collected with the L3 detector at LEP between 1990 and 1995, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 149 pb(-1), the tau longitudinal polarisation has been measured as a function of the production polar angle using the tau decays tau(-) --> h(-)nu(tau) (h = pi,rho,a(1)) and tau(-)-->l(-)<(nu)over bar>(l)nu(tau) (l = e,mu). From this measurement the quantities A(c) and A(tau), which depend on the couplings of the electron and the tau to the Z, are determined to be A(c) = 0.1678 +/- 0.0127 +/- 0.0030 and A(tau) = 0.1476 +/- 0.0088 +/- 0.0062, consistent with the hypothesis of e-tau universality, Under this assumption a value of A(l) = 0.1540 +/- 0.0074 +/- 0.0044 is obtained, yielding the value of the effective weak mixing angle sin(2)<(theta)over bar>(W) = 0.2306 +/- 0.0011. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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