Contributed OPAL abstracts and papers for the
International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) 02
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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.
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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)
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