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Measurement and interpretation of the W pair cross-section in e+ e- interactions at 161-GeV

The DELPHI collaboration Abreu, P. ; Adam, W. ; Adye, T. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 397 (1997) 158-170, 1997.
Inspire Record 440217 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.47441

In 1996 LEP ran at a centre-of-mass energy of 161 GeV, just above the threshold of W-pair production. DELPHI accumulated data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.93 pb −1 , and observed 29 events that are considered as candidates for W-pair production. From these, a cross-section for the doubly resonant e + e − → WW process of 3.67 −0.85 +0.97 ± 0.19 pb has been measured. Within the Standard Model, this cross-section corresponds to a mass of the W-boson of 80.40 ± 0.44 (stat.) ± 0.09 (syst.) ± 0.03 (LEP) GeV/ c 2 . Alternatively, if m W is held fixed at its current value determined by other experiments, the observed cross-section is used to obtain limits on trilinear WWV (V ≡ γ, Z) couplings.

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