191 research outputs found
Measurement of |V(cb)| using the semileptonic decay anti-B/d0 ! D*+1- anti-nu/1.
No full textData from Z decays in DELPHI have been searched for [(B- d(o))over bar] � D<sup>star</sup>+ l(-) (ν) over bar (l) with the D<sup>star</sup>+ decaying to D(0)pi(+) and D-0 � K(-)pi(+), K(-)pi(+)pi(+)pi(- ) or K- pi(+)(pi(0)). These events are used to measure the CKM matrix element \V-cb\ and the form factor slope, rho(A1)(2): F- D<sup>star</sup>(1) \V-cb\ = 0.0392 +/- 0.0018 +/- 0.0023; rho(A1)(2) = 1.32 +/- 0.15 +/- 0.33 corresponding to a branching fraction: BR([(B-d(0))over bar] � D(<sup>star</sup>+)l(-)(ν) over bar (l)) = (5.90 +/- 0.22 +/- 0.50)%. Combining these and previous DELPHI measurements gives: FD<sup>star</sup>(1)\V-cb\ = 0.0377 +/- 0.0011 +/- 0.0019, rho(A1)(2) = 1.39 +/- 0.10 +/- 0.33 and BR([(B- d(0))over bar] � D(<sup>star</sup>+)l(-)(ν) over bar (l)) = (5.39 +/- 0.11 +/- 0.34)% Using F-D<sup>star</sup>(1) = 0.91 +/- 0.04, yields: \V-cb\ = 0.0414 +/- 0.0012(stat.) +/- 0.0021(syst.) +/- 0.0018 (theory). The b-quark semileptonic branching fraction into a D<sup>star</sup>+ emitted from higher mass charmed excited states has also been measured to be: BR(b � D<sup>star</sup>+ Xl(-)(ν) over bar (l)) = (0.67 +/- 0.08 +/- 0.10)%
Search for B(s)0 - anti-B(s)0 oscillations and a measurement of B(d)0 - anti-B(d)0 oscillations using events with an inclusively reconstructed vertex
No full textNeutral B meson oscillations in the B-s(0) - [(B-s(0))over bar], and B-d(0) - [(B-d(0))over bar] systems were studied using a sample of about 4.0 million hadronic Z decays recorded by the DELPHI detector between 1992 and 2000. Events with a high transverse momentum lepton were removed and a sample of 770 k events with an inclusively reconstructed vertex was selected. The mass difference between the two physical states in the B-d(0) - [(B-d(0))over bar]system was measured to be: Deltam(d) = (0.531 +/- 0.025(stat.) +/- 0.007(syst.))ps(-1). The following limit on the width difference of these states was also obtained: \DeltaGamma(Bd)\/Gamma(Bd) lt 0.18 at 95% CL. As no evidence for B-s(0) -[(B-s(0))over bar] oscillations was found, a limit on the mass difference of the two physical states was given:, Deltam(s) gt 5.0 ps(-1) at 95% CL. The corresponding sensitivity of this analysis is equal to 6.6 ps(- 1)
Measurement of |Vcb| using the semileptonic decay B d 0 → D*+ℓ-ν ℓ
No full textData from Z decays in DELPHI have been searched for Bd 0 → D*+ℓ-νℓ with the D*+ decaying to D0π+ and D0 → K-π+, K-π +π+π- or K-π +(π0). These events are used to measure the CKM matrix element |Vcb| and the form factor slope, ρA1 2: ℱD* (1) |Vcb| = 0.0392 ± 0.0018 ± 0.0023; ρA1 2 = 1.32 ± 0.15 ± 0.33 corresponding to a branching fraction: BR(Bd 0 → D*+ℓ-νℓ) = (5.90 ± 0.22 ± 0.50)%. Combining these and previous DELPHI measurements gives: ℱD* (1) |Vcb| = 0.0377 ± 0.0011 ± 0.0019, ρA1 2 = 1.39 ± 0.10 ± 0.33 and BR(Bd 0 → D* +ℓ-νℓ) = (5.39 ± 0.11 ± 0.34)% Using ℱD* (1) = 0.91 ± 0.04, yields: |Vcbl = 0.0414 ± 0.0012(stat.) ± 0.0021(syst.) ± 0.0018(theory). The b-quark semileptonic branching fraction into a D*+ emitted from higher mass charmed excited states has also been measured to be: BR(b → D*+Xℓ-ν ℓ) = (0.67 ± 0.08 ± 0.10)%
Inclusive b decays to wrong sign charmed mesons
No full textThe production of wrong sign charmed mesons b → D (s)X, D (s) = (D 0, D +, D s), is studied using the data collected by the DELPHI experiment in the years 1994 and 1995. Charmed mesons in Z → bb events are exclusively reconstructed by searching for the decays D 0 → K -π +, D + → K -π +π + and D s + φπ + → K +K -π +. The wrong sign contribution is extracted by using two discriminant variables: the charge of the b-quark at decay time, estimated from the charges of identified particles, and the momentum of the charmed meson in the rest frame of the b-hadron. The inclusive branching fractions of b-hadrons into wrong sign charm mesons are measured to be: B(b → D 0X) + B(b → D -X) = (9.3 ± 1.7(stat) ± 1.3(syst) ± 0.4(B))%, B(b → D s -X) = (10.1 ± 0.4(B))%, B(b → D s -X) = (10.1 ± 1.0(stat) ± 0.6(syst) ± 2.8(B))% where the first error is statistical, the second and third errors are systematic. © 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.0SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
Measurement of the mass and width of the W boson in e+e- collisions at s√= 161–209 GeV
No full textAbdallah, J., Abreu, P., Adam, W., Adzic, P., Albrecht, T., Alemany-Fernandez, R., Allmendinger, T., Allport, P.P., Amaldi, U., Amapane, N., Amato, S., Anashkin, E., Andreazza, A., Andringa, S., Anjos, N., Antilogus, P., Apel, W.-D., Arnoud, Y., Ask, S., Asman, B., Augustin, J.E., Augustinus, A., Baillon, P., Ballestrero, A., Bambade, P., Barbier, R., Bardin, D., Barker, G.J., Baroncelli, A., Battaglia, M., Baubillier, M., Becks, K.-H., Begalli, M., Behrmann, A., Ben-Haim, E., Benekos, N., Benvenuti, A., Berat, C., Berggren, M., Bertrand, D., Besancon, M., Besson, N., Bloch, D., Blom, M., Bluj, M., Bonesini, M., Boonekamp, M., Booth, P.S.L., Borisov, G., Botner, O., Bouquet, B., Bowcock, T.J.V., Boyko, I., Bracko, M., Brenner, R., Brodet, E., Bruckman, P., Brunet, J.M., Buschbeck, B., Buschmann, P., Calvi, M., Camporesi, T., Canale, V., Carena, F., Castro, N., Cavallo, F., Chapkin, M., Charpentier, Ph., Checchia, P., Chierici, R., Chliapnikov, P., Chudoba, J., Chung, S.U., Cieslik, K., Collins, P., Contri, R., Cosme, G., Cossutti, F., Costa, M.J., Crennell, D., Cuevas, J., D'Hondt, J., Da Silva, T., Da Silva, W., Della Ricca, G., De Angelis, A., De Boer, W., De Clercq, C., De Lotto, B., De Maria, N., De Min, A., De Paula, L., Di Ciaccio, L., Di Simone, A., Doroba, K., Drees, J., Duperrin, A., Eigen, G., Ekelof, T., Ellert, M., Elsing, M., Espirito Santo, M.C., Fanourakis, G., Fassouliotis, D., Feindt, M., Fernandez, J., Ferrer, A., Ferro, F., Flagmeyer, U., Foeth, H., Fokitis, E., Fulda-Quenzer, F., Fuster, J., Gandelman, M., Garcia, C., Gavillet, Ph., Gazis, E., Gokieli, R., Golob, B., Gomez-Ceballos, G., Goncalves, P., Graziani, E., Grosdidier, G., Grzelak, K., Guy, J., Haag, C., Hallgren, A., Hamacher, K., Hamilton, K., Haug, S., Hauler, F., Hedberg, V., Hennecke, M., Hoffman, J., Holmgren, S.-O., Holt, P.J., Houlden, M.A., Jackson, J.N., Jarlskog, G., Jarry, P., Jeans, D., Johansson, E.K., Jonsson, P., Joram, C., Jungermann, L., Kapusta, F., Katsanevas, S., Katsoufis, E., Kernel, G., Kersevan, B.P., Kerzel, U., King, B.T., Kjaer, N.J., Kluit, P., Kokkinias, P., Kourkoumelis, C., Kouznetsov, O., Krumstein, Z., Kucharczyk, M., Lamsa, J., Leder, G., Ledroit, F., Leinonen, L., Leitner, R., Lemonne, J., Lepeltier, V., Lesiak, T., Liebig, W., Liko, D., Lipniacka, A., Lopes, J.H., Lopez, J.M., Loukas, D., Lutz, P., Lyons, L., MacNaughton, J., Malek, A., Maltezos, S., Mandl, F., Marco, J., Marco, R., Marechal, B., Margoni, M., Marin, J.-C., Mariotti, C., Markou, A., Martinez-Rivero, C., Masik, J., Mastroyiannopoulos, N., Matorras, F., Matteuzzi, C., Mazzucato, F., Mazzucato, M., Mc Nulty, R., Meroni, C., Migliore, E., Mitaroff, W., Mjoernmark, U., Moa, T., Moch, M., Moenig, K., Monge, R., Montenegro, J., Moraes, D., Moreno, S., Morettini, P., Mueller, U., Muenich, K., Mulders, M., Mundim, L., Murray, W., Muryn, B., Myatt, G., Myklebust, T., Nassiakou, M., Navarria, F., Nawrocki, K., Nicolaidou, R., Nikolenko, M., Oblakowska-Mucha, A., Obraztsov, V., Olshevski, A., Onofre, A., Orava, R., Osterberg, K., Ouraou, A., Oyanguren, A., Paganoni, M., Paiano, S., Palacios, J.P., Palka, H., Papadopoulou, Th.D., Pape, L., Parkes, C., Parodi, F., Parzefall, U., Passeri, A., Passon, O., Peralta, L., Perepelitsa, V., Perrotta, A., Petrolini, A., Piedra, J., Pieri, L., Pierre, F., Pimenta, M., Piotto, E., Podobnik, T., Poireau, V., Pol, M.E., Polok, G., Pozdniakov, V., Pukhaeva, N., Pullia, A., Radojicic, D., Rames, J., Read, A., Rebecchi, P., Rehn, J., Reid, D., Reinhardt, R., Renton, P., Richard, F., Ridky, J., Rivero, M., Rodriguez, D., Romero, A., Ronchese, P., Roudeau, P., Rovelli, T., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Ryabtchikov, D., Sadovsky, A., Salmi, L., Salt, J., Sander, C., Savoy-Navarro, A., Schwickerath, U., Sekulin, R., Siebel, M., Simard, L., Sisakian, A., Smadja, G., Smirnova, O., Sokolov, A., Sopczak, A., Sosnowski, R., Spassov, T., Stanitzki, M., Stocchi, A., Strauss, J., Stugu, B., Szczekowski, M., Szeptycka, M., Szumlak, T., Tabarelli, T., Tegenfeldt, F., Thomas, J., Timmermans, J., Tkatchev, L., Tobin, M., Todorovova, S., Tome, B., Tonazzo, A., Tortosa, P., Travnicek, P., Treille, D., Tristram, G., Trochimczuk, M., Troncon, C., Turluer, M.-L., Tyapkin, I.A., Tyapkin, P., Tzamarias, S., Uvarov, V., Valenti, G., Van Dam, P., Van Eldik, J., Van Remortel, N., Van Vulpen, I., Vegni, G., Veloso, F., Venus, W., Verdier, P., Verzi, V., Vilanova, D., Vitale, L., Vrba, V., Wahlen, H., Washbrook, A.J., Weiser, C., Wicke, D., Wickens, J., Wilkinson, G., Winter, M., Witek, M., Yushchenko, O., Zalewska, A., Zalewski, P., Zavrtanik, D., Zhuravlov, V., Zimin, N.I., Zintchenko, A., Zupan, M
Erratum.Higgs boson searches in CP-conserving and CP-violating MSSM scenarios with the DELPHI detector
No full textErratum to: Eur. Phys. J. C 54, 1–35 (2008); doi:
10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0506-1CICYT AEN99-0950 and AEN99-0761Abdallah, J., Abreu, P., Adam, W., Adzic, P., Albrecht, T., Alemany-Fernandez, R., Allmendinger, T., Allport, P.P., Amaldi, U., Amapane, N., Amato, S., Anashkin, E., Andreazza, A., Andringa, S., Anjos, N., Antilogus, P., Apel, W.-D., Arnoud, Y., Ask, S., Asman, B., Augustin, J.E., Augustinus, A., Baillon, P., Ballestrero, A., Bambade, P., Barbier, R., Bardin, D., Barker, G.J., Baroncelli, A., Battaglia, M., Baubillier, M., Becks, K.-H., Begalli, M., Behrmann, A., Ben-Haim, E., Benekos, N., Benvenuti, A., Berat, C., Berggren, M., Berntzon, L., Bertrand, D., Besancon, M., Besson, N., Bloch, D., Blom, M., Bluj, M., Bonesini, M., Boonekamp, M., Booth, P.S.L., Borisov, G., Botner, O., Bouquet, B., Bowcock, T.J.V., Boyko, I., Bracko, M., Brenner, R., Brodet, E., Bruckman, P., Brunet, J.M., Buschbeck, B., Buschmann, P., Calvi, M., Camporesi, T., Canale, V., Carena, F., Castro, N., Cavallo, F., Chapkin, M., Charpentier, Ph., Checchia, P., Chierici, R., Chliapnikov, P., Chudoba, J., Chung, S.U., Cieslik, K., Collins, P., Contri, R., Cosme, G., Cossutti, F., Costa, M.J., Crennell, D., Cuevas, J., D'Hondt, J., Dalmau, J., Da Silva, T., Da Silva, W., Della Ricca, G., De Angelis, A., De Boer, W., De Clercq, C., De Lotto, B., De Maria, N., De Min, A., De Paula, L., Di Ciaccio, L., Di Simone, A., Doroba, K., Drees, J., Eigen, G., Ekelof, T., Ellert, M., Elsing, M., Espirito Santo, M.C., Fanourakis, G., Fassouliotis, D., Feindt, M., Fernandez, J., Ferrer, A., Ferro, F., Flagmeyer, U., Foeth, H., Fokitis, E., Fulda-Quenzer, F., Fuster, J., Gandelman, M., Garcia, C., Gavillet, Ph., Gazis, E., Gokieli, R., Golob, B., Gomez-Ceballos, G., Goncalves, P., Graziani, E., Grosdidier, G., Grzelak, K., Guy, J., Haag, C., Hallgren, A., Hamacher, K., Hamilton, K., Haug, S., Hauler, F., Hedberg, V., Hennecke, M., Herr, H., Hoffman, J., Holmgren, S.-O., Holt, P.J., Houlden, M.A., Jackson, J.N., Jarlskog, G., Jarry, P., Jeans, D., Johansson, E.K., Johansson, P.D., Jonsson, P., Joram, C., Jungermann, L., Kapusta, F., Katsanevas, S., Katsoufis, E., Kernel, G., Kersevan, B.P., Kerzel, U., King, B.T., Kjaer, N.J., Kluit, P., Kokkinias, P., Kourkoumelis, C., Kouznetsov, O., Krumstein, Z., Kucharczyk, M., Lamsa, J., Leder, G., Ledroit, F., Leinonen, L., Leitner, R., Lemonne, J., Lepeltier, V., Lesiak, T., Liebig, W., Liko, D., Lipniacka, A., Lopes, J.H., Lopez, J.M., Loukas, D., Lutz, P., Lyons, L., MacNaughton, J., Malek, A., Maltezos, S., Mandl, F., Marco, J., Marco, R., Marechal, B., Margoni, M., Marin, J.-C., Mariotti, C., Markou, A., Martinez-Rivero, C., Masik, J., Mastroyiannopoulos, N., Matorras, F., Matteuzzi, C., Mazzucato, F., Mazzucato, M., Mc Nulty, R., Meroni, C., Migliore, E., Mitaroff, W., Mjoernmark, U., Moa, T., Moch, M., Moenig, K., Monge, R., Montenegro, J., Moraes, D., Moreno, S., Morettini, P., Mueller, U., Muenich, K., Mulders, M., Mundim, L., Murray, W., Muryn, B., Myatt, G., Myklebust, T., Nassiakou, M., Navarria, F., Nawrocki, K., Nicolaidou, R., Nikolenko, M., Oblakowska-Mucha, A., Obraztsov, V., Olshevski, A., Onofre, A., Orava, R., Osterberg, K., Ouraou, A., Oyanguren, A., Paganoni, M., Paiano, S., Palacios, J.P., Palka, H., Papadopoulou, Th.D., Pape, L., Parkes, C., Parodi, F., Parzefall, U., Passeri, A., Passon, O., Peralta, L., Perepelitsa, V., Perrotta, A., Petrolini, A., Piedra, J., Pieri, L., Pierre, F., Pimenta, M., Piotto, E., Podobnik, T., Poireau, V., Pol, M.E., Polok, G., Pozdniakov, V., Pukhaeva, N., Pullia, A., Rames, J., Read, A., Rebecchi, P., Rehn, J., Reid, D., Reinhardt, R., Renton, P., Richard, F., Ridky, J., Rivero, M., Rodriguez, D., Romero, A., Ronchese, P., Roudeau, P., Rovelli, T., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Ryabtchikov, D., Sadovsky, A., Salmi, L., Salt, J., Sander, C., Savoy-Navarro, A., Schwickerath, U., Sekulin, R., Siebel, M., Sisakian, A., Smadja, G., Smirnova, O., Sokolov, A., Sopczak, A., Sosnowski, R., Spassov, T., Stanitzki, M., Stocchi, A., Strauss, J., Stugu, B., Szczekowski, M., Szeptycka, M., Szumlak, T., Tabarelli, T., Taffard, A.C., Tegenfeldt, F., Timmermans, J., Tkatchev, L., Tobin, M., Todorovova, S., Tome, B., Tonazzo, A., Tortosa, P., Travnicek, P., Treille, D., Tristram, G., Trochimczuk, M., Troncon, C., Turluer, M.-L., Tyapkin, I.A., Tyapkin, P., Tzamarias, S., Uvarov, V., Valenti, G., Van Dam, P., Van Eldik, J., Van Remortel, N., Van Vulpen, I., Vegni, G., Veloso, F., Venus, W., Verdier, P., Verzi, V., Vilanova, D., Vitale, L., Vrba, V., Wahlen, H., Washbrook, A.J., Weiser, C., Wicke, D., Wickens, J., Wilkinson, G., Winter, M., Witek, M., Yushchenko, O., Zalewska, A., Zalewski, P., Zavrtanik, D., Zhuravlov, V., Zimin, N.I., Zintchenko, A., Zupan, M
Search for B0(S) - anti-B0(S) oscillations in DELPHI using high-P(T) leptons.
No full textOscillations in the B-s(0)- [(B-s(0))over bar] system were studied in events selected from about 4.3 million hadronic Z(0) decays registered by DELPHI between 1992 and 2000. This paper presents updates of two published analyses ([11, 12]). The first analysis, which utilizes leptons emitted with large momentum transverse to a jet, was improved by means of a better algorithm for the vertex reconstuction and a new algorithm for flavour-tagging at production time. The second analysis, which utilizes D-s-lepton events, was improved by optimizing the treatment of proper time resolution. No signal of B-s(0) oscillations was observed and limits on the mass difference between the physical B-s(0) states were obtained to be: Deltam(s) gt 8.0 ps-1 at the 95% C.L. with a sensitivity of Deltam(s)= 9.1 ps(-1) in the high p(t) lepton analysis and Deltam(s) gt 4.9 ps(-1) at the 95% C.L. with a sensitivity of Deltam(s)=8.6 ps(-1) in the D-s-lepton analysis. Previously published results on these analyses are superseded. The combination of these results with those obtained in other independent analyses previously performed in DELPHI (D-s- hadron, exclusive B-s(0), inclusive vertex) gives: Deltam(s) gt 8.5 ps(-1) at the 95% C.L. with a sensitivity of Deltam(s)=12.0 ps(-1
Search for one large extra dimension with the DELPHI detector at LEP
No full textSingle photons detected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP2 in the years 1997-2000 are reanalysed to investigate the existence of a single extra dimension in a modified ADD scenario with slightly warped large extra dimensions. The data collected at centre-of-mass energies between 180 and 209 GeV for an integrated luminosity of similar to 650 pb(-1) agree with the predictions of the Standard Model and allow a limit to be set on graviton emission in one large extra dimension. The limit obtained on the fundamental mass scale M-D is 1.69 TeV/c(2) at 95% CL, with an expected limit of 1.71 TeV/c(2)
Study of the dependence of direct soft photon production on the jet characteristics in hadronic Z0 decays
No full textAn analysis of the direct soft photon production rate as a function of the parent jet characteristics is presented, based on hadronic events collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP1. The dependences of the photon rates on the jet kinematic characteristics (momentum, mass, etc.) and on the jet charged, neutral and total hadron multiplicities are reported. Up to a scale factor of about four, which characterizes the overall value of the soft photon excess, a similarity of the observed soft photon behavior to that of the inner hadronic bremsstrahlung predictions is found for the momentum, mass, and jet charged multiplicity dependences. However for the dependence of the soft photon rate on the jet neutral and total hadron multiplicities a prominent difference is found for the observed soft photon signal as compared to the expected bremsstrahlung from final state hadrons. The observed linear increase of the soft photon production rate with the jet total hadron multiplicity and its strong dependence on the jet neutral multiplicity suggest that the rate is proportional to the number of quark pairs produced in the fragmentation process, with the neutral pairs being more effectively radiating than the charged ones
Determination of the b quark mass at the MZ scale with the DELPHI detector at LEP
No full textAn experimental study of the normalized three-jet rate of b quark events with respect to light quarks events (light = l ≡ u,d,s) has been performed using the CAMBRIDGE and DURHAM jet algorithms. The data used were collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP on the Z peak from 1994 to 2000. The results are found to agree with theoretical predictions treating mass corrections at next-to-leading order. Measurements of the b quark mass have also been performed for both the b pole mass: Mb and the b running mass: m b(MZ). Data are found to be better described when using the running mass. The measurement yields: mb(MZ) = 2.85±0.18(stat) ±0.13(exp)±0.19(had) ±0.12(theo) GeV/c2. for the CAMBRIDGE algorithm. This result is the most precise measurement of the b mass derived from a high energy process. When compared to other b mass determinations by experiments at lower energy scales, this value agrees with the prediction of quantum chromodynamics for the energy evolution of the running mass. The mass measurement is equivalent to a test of the flavour independence of the strong coupling constant with an accuracy of 7 ‰.0SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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