ICHEP02

Contributed OPAL abstracts and papers for the


International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) 02
24-31 July 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands


OPAL

This page will be regularly updated until the beginning of the conference.

The ID number of the abstract identifies it in the list of submissions to the ICHEP conference.

Last update 23-July-2002 by opal-physics-coordinators@cern.ch ; 76 abstracts and 65 papers submitted.

More information: OPAL public page for physicists and searching OPAL publications by topic


Two kinds of OPAL documents are referenced here:

1) Final OPAL publications are identified by PRxxx. They may be quoted without reservation. All published OPAL results

2) Preliminary OPAL results, in Physics Notes identified by PNxxx, may change before final publication. All preliminary OPAL results

Documents marked `Unavailable' were unfortunately not ready in time for ICHEP02.

Contact : OPAL spokesman (D.Plane), OPAL Physics Coordinators (R.Hawkings, P.Wells)


INDEX

Collected preliminary results using all 2000 data
Standard Electroweak Model Photon-photon Interactions
WW and Gauge Couplings Higgs
Searches (not Higgs) Tau Physics
Heavy Flavour QCD and Inclusive Hadron Production


Collected preliminary results using all 2000 data
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS521 Searches for Higgs Bosons in Extensions to the Standard Model in e+e- Collisions at the Highest LEP Energies PN472 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS522 New Particle Searches in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200-209 GeV PN470 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS523 Measurements of Standard Model Processes in e+e- Collisions at sqrt{s}=203-209 GeV PN469 4. Electroweak Physics 5. QCD: Hard interactions

Standard Electroweak Model
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS324 Angular Analysis of the Muon Pair Asymmetry at LEP 1 PR339 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS326 Precise Determination of the Z Resonance Parameters at LEP: ``Zedometry'' PR328 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS327 Measurement of Z/gamma* production in Compton scattering of quasi-real photons PR341 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS377 Determination of S-matrix parameters from fermion-pair production at OPAL PN474 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS378 Determination of the LEP beam energy using radiative fermion-pair events PN493 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS379 Multi-Photon Production at 181 - 209 GeV at OPAL PR363 4. Electroweak physics 10. Beyond the Standard Model
ABS889 Test of noncommutative QED at LEP PN500 10. Beyond the Standard Model 4. Electroweak physics
ABS418 Measurements of neutral current four fermion production at LEP2 PR358 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS380 Measurement of the electroweak couplings of the up- and down-type quarks Unavailable 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS560 Limits on Low Scale Quantum Gravity in Extra Spatial Dimensions from Measurements of e+e- to e+e- at LEP2 PN471 10. Beyond the Standard Model 4. Electroweak physics

WW and Gauge Couplings
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS381 Measurement of triple gauge boson couplings in W+W- production at LEP PN496 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS524 Triple gauge boson couplings in W+W- production at LEP PN501 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS531 Measurement of charged triple gauge couplings with photonic events PN508 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS525 Spin Density Matrix Analysis of W Polarisation at OPAL Unavailable 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS532 Study of Z Pair Production and Anomalous Couplings in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) between 190 and 209 GeV PN482 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS382 Measurement of Quartic Gauge Couplings using OPAL Data PN510 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS383 Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in e+e- Collisions using the Fully Leptonic Channel PR353 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS384 Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in e+e- annihilations at 192-202 GeV PN422 4. Electroweak Physics  
ABS390 Colour reconnection studies in e+e- -> W+W- using particle flow PN506 6. QCD: Soft interactions 4. Electroweak Physics
ABS567 WW production cross section and W branching fractions in e+e- collisions from 161 - 208 GeV Unavailable 4. Electroweak Physics  

Higgs
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS266 Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP PR349 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS267 Search for Yukawa Production of a Light Neutral Higgs Boson at LEP PR348 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS391 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=192-209 GeV PR367 4. Electroweak physics 10. Beyond the Standard Model
ABS392 Flavour Independent Search for Hadronically Decaying Neutral Higgs bosons in the Higgstrahlung process. PN507 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS393 Search for Charged Higgs Bosons using the OPAL Detector at LEP2 PN509 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS395 OPAL Final Limits on e+e- Associated Production of Diphoton States PR357 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS397 Interpretation of the Search for Higgs Bosons in a CP-Violating MSSM Scenario PN505 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS398 Search for low mass Higgs bosons in e+e- collisions with the OPAL detector at LEP2 PR365 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS399 Decay-mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP PR355 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS1074 Search for the Single Production of Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons and Constraints on its Couplings from Bhabha Scattering. PN502 10. Beyond the Standard Model  

Searches (not Higgs)
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS309 Search for Leptoquarks in Electron-Photon Scattering at sqrt(s_ee) up to 209 GeV at LEP PR351 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS310 Search for Single Top Quark Production at LEP2 PR345 10. Beyond the Standard Model 4. Electroweak Physics
ABS311 Search for lepton flavour violation in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) = 189-209 GeV PR343 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS312 Searches for Technicolor with the OPAL detector in e+e- collisions at the Highest LEP Energies PN485 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS498 Search for Scalar Top and Scalar Bottom Quarks upto sqrt(s)=209 GeV at LEP PR360 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS501 Searches for GMSB Signatures in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=189-208 GeV PN504 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS505 Search for Charged Excited Leptons with Photonic Decay in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=183-209 GeV at LEP PR356 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS508 Search for Chargino and Neutralino Production at sqrt(s)=192-209 GeV at LEP PN503 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS509 Photonic Events with Missing Energy in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)=189-209 GeV Unavailable 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS510 Leptonic Events with Missing Energy in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)= 183-208 GeV Unavailable 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS511 Search for Charginos with Small Delta_M in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)=189-208 GeV PR366 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS513 Search for R-Parity Violating Decays of Scalar Fermions at LEP PN499 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS515 Search for Stable and Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=130-209 GeV PN497 10. Beyond the Standard Model  
ABS516 Search for pair produced leptoquarks in e+e- interactions at sqrt(s)=189-209 GeV PN498 10. Beyond the Standard Model  

Tau Physics
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS308 Measurement of the tau->mu branching ratio Unavailable 4. Electroweak physics  

Heavy Flavour
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS201 Measurement of the Branching Ratio for the Process b->tau nu X PR340 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons 10. Beyond the Standard Model
ABS217 Measurement of Vub using b hadron semileptonic decay PR338 7. CP violation and the CKM matrix 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons
ABS218 Measurement of the Branching Ratio for D_s->tau nu_tau Decays PR334 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons 7. CP violation and the CKM matrix
ABS219 A Search for a Narrow Radial Excitation of the D*+- Meson PR331 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons 9. Hadron spectroscopy and exotics
ABS242 A Study of Bs meson oscillation using Ds-lepton Correlations PR327 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons 7. CP violation and the CKM matrix
ABS243 Investigation of the Decay of Orbitally-Excited B mesons and First Measurement of the Branching Ratio BR(B_J^* -->B^* pi (X)) PR325 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons 9. Hadron spectroscopy and exotics
ABS244 Measurement of the branching ratio for b->D Dbar X and charm counting at LEP Unavailable 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons  
ABS578 Measurement of the b quark forward-backward asymmetry around the Z peak using an inclusive tag PR361 4. Electroweak physics  
ABS526 Measurement of b-quark fragmentation at LEP PR359 8. Heavy quark mesons and baryons 6. QCD: Soft interactions

QCD and Inclusive Hadron Production
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS318 Particle Multiplicity of Unbiased Gluon Jets from e+e- three-jet Events PR347 5. QCD: hard interactions  
ABS319 Genuine Correlations of Like-Sign Particles in Hadronic Z0 Decays PR346 6. QCD: soft interactions  
ABS320 Charged Multiplicities in Z Decays into u, d, and s Quarks PR326 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS368 Updated measurements of alpha_s using event shape observables PN512 5. QCD: hard interactions  
ABS369 Fermi-Dirac correlations between antiprotons in hadronic Z0 decays Unavailable 6. QCD: soft interactions  
ABS370 Contribution to the study of four-jet events from hadronic decays of the Z boson PN473 5. QCD: hard interactions  
ABS371 Bose-Einstein correlations in pi0-pi0 pairs in hadronic Z0 decays Unavailable 6. QCD: soft interactions  
ABS372 Study of charged particle momentum distributions in hadronic e+e- events at sqrt(s) = 192-207 GeV PR362 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS323 Determination of the b Quark Mass at the Z Mass Scale PR336 5. QCD: hard interactions  
ABS373 Charged particle multiplicities in heavy and light quark initiated events above the Z peak PN511 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS577 Measurement of the scaling violations of the quark and gluon fragmentation functions Unavailable 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions

Photon-Photon Interactions
Abstract ID Title OPAL
document
Session 1 Session 2
ABS321 Measurement of the Hadronic Photon Structure Function F2(gamma) at LEP 2 PR352 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS322 Measurement of the Hadronic Cross-Section for the Scattering of Two Virtual Photons at LEP PR344 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS374 Di-Jet Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s_ee) from 189 to 209 GeV PN491 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS375 Measurement of the charm structure function F2,c of the photon at LEP PR354 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS376 Isolated Prompt Photon Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s_ee)=183-209 GeV PN492 5. QCD: hard interactions 6. QCD: soft interactions
ABS420 Measurement of the Photon and Electron Structure Functions at low x Unavailable 5. QCD: hard interactions 4. Electroweak Physics
ABS366 Measurement of Open Beauty Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s_ee)=189-202 GeV PN455 6. QCD: hard interactions 5. QCD: soft interactions
ABS1060 Measurement of the cross section for the process gamma.gamma to p.pbar at sqrt(s_ee)=183-189 GeV at LEP PR364 5. QCD: soft interactions  


opal-physics-coordinators@cern.ch, 23 July 2002