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Z production cross sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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Precise values of theZ resonance cross sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries are measured from a sample of 1.3 millionZ decays into hadrons and charged leptons taken with the ALEPH detector at LEP. A silicon-tungsten luminosity calorimeter was installed in ALEPH in 1992, permitting the determination of the absolute luminosity to a systematic precision of 0.15% (experimental) and 0.25% (theoretical). This is combined with a better understanding of the hadronic event selection and an improved tau pair selection. Including the ALEPH results of the past three years one obtains σ 0 h =(41.60±0.16) nb, andR l =20.69±0.09. The corresponding number of light neutrino species isN v =2.983±0.034. The lepton pair forward-backward asymmetry is used to derive the ratio of vector to axial-vector couplings of leptons:g 2 V (M 2 Z )/g 2 A (M 2 Z )=0.0058 ±0.0011. An application of these results to constrain one model with extraZ bosons is presented.

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ALEPH Collaboration., Buskulic, D., Casper, D. et al. Z production cross sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 62, 539–550 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574159

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