Measurement of r and Search for the Top Quark in e+ e- Annihilation Between 39.8-GeV and 45.2-GeV

The TASSO collaboration Althoff, M. ; Braunschweig, W. ; Kirschfink, F.J. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 138 (1984) 441-448, 1984.
Inspire Record 199468 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.6655

e + e − annihilation into hadrons was studied at CM energies between 39.8 and 45.2 GeV and a search was made for new heavy quarks. No evidence was found for the existence of a narrow state excluding the possible existence of the lowest vector toponium state in this mass range. A search for continuum production of heavy quarks led to lower mass limits for new quarks of 22.0 GeV ( e Q = 2 3 ) and 21.0 GeV ( e Q = 1 3 ). Quarks are found to be pointlike, the corresponding mass parameter being larger than 288 GeV. A fit of the QCD and the electroweak contributions to R = σ tot / σ μμ yielded sin 2 θ W = 0.30 −0.07 +0.23 .

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STATISTICAL ERRORS ONLY. NUMERICAL VALUES OF DATA TAKEN FROM PREPRINT.

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