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An extensive study of production and decay properties of charged and neutral Intermediate Vector Bosons (IVB) at the CERN proton-antiproton collider is presented. Intermediate Vector Bosons were detected in the electron, muon, and tau decay modes at centre-of-mass energies of 0.546 and 0.630 TeV. This paper is a summary, based on all the available data from the UA1 experiment from the running periods 1982–1985. Results are presented and compared with expectations of the Standard Eletroweak Model and QCD-improved Drell-Yan annihilation processes. The general conclusion is that there is an excellent agreement between the predictions of the Standard Model and our measurements.
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UA1 Collaboration., Albajar, C., Albrow, M.G. et al. Studies of intermediate vector boson production and decay in UA1 at the CERN proton-antiproton collider. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 44, 15–61 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01548582
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