EPS

Contributed OPAL abstracts and papers for the


International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics
EPS, 17-23 July 2003, Aachen, Germany


XXI International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies
11-16 August 2003, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA


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Last update: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:50

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INDEX

Electroweak at the Z Standard Model Processes at LEP2
WW and Triple Gauge Couplings Higgs
Searches (not Higgs) Tau Physics
Heavy Flavour QCD and Inclusive Hadron Production
Photon-Photon Interactions EPS '03 and LP '03 session index 


Electroweak at the Z
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session  Session 
715-P / 13
Measurement of the b quark forward-backward asymmetry around the Z0 peak using an inclusive tag
PR361 15 1
716-P / 199
Measurement of the b and c quark forward-backward asymmetries and average B mixing in Z0 decays using leptons in hadronic events
15 1

Standard Model Processes at LEP2
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session 
717-P / 23
Measurement of Neutral-Current Four-Fermion Production at LEP2
15 1
718-P / 200
Multi-Photon Production in e+e- Collisions at 181 - 209 GeV
PR363 15, 12 1
719-P / 201
Test of non-commutative QED in the process e+e- to gamma gamma at LEP
PR374 15, 12 1
720-P / 202
Tests of the Standard Model and Constraints on New Physics from Measurements of Fermion-pair Production at 189-209 GeV at LEP
PN521 15, 12 1
721-P / 203
Study of Z Pair Production and Anomalous Couplings in e^+e^- Collisions at sqrt(s) between 190 and 209 GeV
PR384 15, 12 1
722-P / 204
Determination of the LEP Beam Energy using Radiative Fermion-pair Events
PN520 15, 3 1

WW and Triple Gauge Couplings
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session
749-P / 205
Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in e+e- Collisions using the Fully Leptonic Channel
15 1
750-P / 206
Measurement of charged current triple gauge boson couplings at LEP
PR387 15 1
751-P / 207
Measurement of triple gauge boson couplings using photonic events with missing energy at sqrt(s) = 189-207 GeV
PN508 15 1
752-P / 208
W Boson Polarisation at LEP2
PN522 15 1
753-P / 209
Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Boson Couplings using Acoplanar Photon Pairs at LEP-2
PN510 15 1
779-P / 210
A study of W+ W- gamma Events at LEP
PR381 15 1
773-P / 211
Bose-Einstein Correlations in W-pair Hadronic Decays at LEP
PN523 4,5,15 1
754-P / 212
Colour reconnection studies in e+e-->W+W- events at sqrt(s)=190-208 GeV using particle flow.
PN506 15, 4 1
755-P / 213
Measurement of the mass of the W boson
PN422 15 1

Higgs
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session
737-P / 214
Search for Yukawa Production of a Light Neutral Higgs Boson at LEP
PR348 12 2
739-P / 215
Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP
12 2
740-P / 216
Decay-mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP
PR355 12 2
741-P / 217
Search for Associated Production of Massive States Decaying into Two Photons in e+e- Annihilation at sqrt(s)=88-209 GeV
PR357 12 2
742-P / 218
Search for a low mass CP-odd Higgs boson in e^+e^- collisions with the OPAL detector at LEP2
PR365 12 2
743-P / 219
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the OPAL Detector at LEP
PR367 12 2
744-P / 220

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at LEP ( This is the LEP combined paper )

PR375 12 2
745-P / 221
Search for the Single Production of Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons and Constraints on its Couplings from Bhabha Scattering.
PR386 12 2
746-P / 222
Search for neutral Higgs bosons in CP-conserving and CP-violating MSSM scenarios with the OPAL detector at LEP
PN524 12 2
747-P / 223
Flavour Independent Search for a Hadronically Decaying Higgs Boson in e^+e^- Collisions
PN525 12 2
748-P / 224
Search for Charged Higgs Bosons using the OPAL Detector at LEP2
PN509 12 2

Searches (not Higgs)
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session
724-P / 225
Search for lepton flavour violation in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) = 189-209 GeV
12 2
725-P / 226
Search for Single Top Quark Production at LEP2
PR345 12 2
726-P / 227
Search for Leptoquarks in Electron-Photon Scattering at sqrt.(s_ee) up to 209 GeV at LEP
PR351 12 2
727-P / 228
Search for charged excited leptons in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)=183-209 GeV
PR356 12 2
728-P / 229
Search for Scalar Top and Scalar Bottom Quarks at LEP
PR360 12 2
729-P / 230
Search for Nearly Mass Degenerate Charginos and Neutralinos at LEP
PR366 12 2
730-P / 231
Search for Stable and Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=183-209 GeV
PR376 12 2
731-P / 232
Search for pair-produced leptoquarks in e+e- interactions at sqrt(s) = 189 - 209 GeV
PR377 12 2
732-P / 233
Search for Anomalous Production of Acoplanar Di-lepton Events in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) =183-208 GeV
PR385 12 2
733-P / 234
Search for R-Parity Violating Decays of Scalar Fermions at LEP
PR380 12 2
734-P / 235
Searches for GMSB Signatures in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=189-208 GeV
PN504 12 2
735-P / 236
Search for Chargino and Neutralino Production at sqrt(s)=192-209 GeV at LEP
PN503 12 2
736-P / 237
Searches for Technicolor with the OPAL detector in e+e- collisions at the Highest LEP Energies
PN485 12 2
829-P / 238
Searches for Radions at LEP2
PN526 12 2

Tau Physics
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session
756-P / 239
A measurement of the tau-->mu nu nu branching ratio
PR369 12, 15 1, 6
771 / ---
Measurement of the Strange tau Hadronic Spectral Function and the Branching fraction for tau-> kpipi

Will not
be ready

15, 6 1

Heavy flavour
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session
757-P / 240
Inclusive Analysis of the b Quark Fragmentation Function in Z Decays at LEP
PR359 6, 4 1, 5
758-P / 241
A study of charm quark production in beauty quark decays with the OPAL detector at LEP
PR382 6 1, 5
759-P / 242
A Measurement of Semileptonic B Decays to Narrow Orbitally-Excited Charm Mesons
PR371 6, 13 1, 5

QCD and Inclusive Hadron Production
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session Session
760-P / 243
Genuine Correlations of Like-Sign Particles in Hadronic Z0 Decays
PR346 4 8, 10
761-P / 244
Particle Multiplicity of Unbiased Gluon Jets from e+e- three-jet Events
PR347 4, 5, 15 8, 10
762-P / 245
Charged Particle Momentum Spectra in e+e- Annihilation at sqrt(s) = 192-209 GeV
PR362 4, 5 8, 10
763-P / 246
Charged particle multiplicities in heavy and light quark initiated events above the Z0 peak
PR368 4, 5 5, 8, 10
764-P / 247
Bose-Einstein Correlations of Pizero pairs from hadronic Z0 Decays
PR373 4, 15 8, 10
780 / ---
Jet Production in e+e- annihilation at sqrt(s)=192 to 207 GeV

will not
be ready

4, 5 8, 10
781 / ---
Measurement of the scaling violations of the quark and gluon fragmentation functions
will not
be ready
4, 5 8, 10
782-P / 248
Updated measurements of alpha_s using event shape observables
PN512 4, 5 8, 10
785-P / 249
Measurement of alpha_s in Radiative Hadronic Events
PN519 4, 5 8, 10
786-P / 250
Tests of models of color reconnection and a search for glueballs using gluon jets with a rapidity gap
PR379 4, 5 2, 8, 10

Photon-Photon Interactions
Abstract
EPS/LP
Title OPAL
document
EPS LP
Session  Session 
704-P / 251
Measurement of the Hadronic Cross-Section for the Scattering of Two Virtual Photons at LEP
PR344 4, 5 10, 8
705-P / 252
Measurement of the Hadronic Photon Structure Function F2gamma at LEP2
PR352 4, 5 10, 8
706-P / 253
Measurement of the Charm Structure Function F_2,c of the Photon at LEP
PR354 4, 5 10, 8
707-P / 254
Measurement of the Cross-Section for the Process Gamma-Gamma->P Pbar at sqrt(s)_ee=183-189 GeV at LEP
PR364 4 10, 8
708-P / 255
Di-Jet Production in Photon-Photon collisions at sqrt(s)ee from 189 to 209 GeV
PR372 5, 4 10, 8
709-P / 256
Measurement of Isolated Prompt Photon Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s)_ee=183-209 GeV
PR378 4, 5 10, 8

number = submitted, -P = (for EPS) paper submitted as well, --- = not submitted (not ready in time)

Sessions
 
EPS '03
Lepton-Photon '03
1 Accelerator R&D Collider and Electroweak Physics
2 CP violation Collider Searches
3 Detectors and data handling Rare B and K Decays
4 Hadronic Physics Weak Mixing Phases
5 Hard QCD CKM Magnitudes and QCD of heavy hadron decays
6 Heavy flavour physics Rare Decays and Penguins
7 High energy nuclear Physics Charm and Quarkonium Physics
8 Neutrino properties and oscillations QCD and Lattice Gauge Physics
9 Non-perturbative field theory Neutrino Physics
10 Particle Astrophysics (cosmic rays) Hadron Structure
11 Particle Astrophysics (dark matter) Astroparticle Physics
12 Physics beyond the Standard Model (exp., phenomenology, new ideas) New accelerators
13 Rare decays Future facilities
14 String theory and extra dimensions  
15 Tests of the Standard Model  

 


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