DOI 10.1007/s100529800851
Tests of the standard model and constraints on new physics from measurements of fermion-pair production at 130-172 GeV at LEP
The OPAL Collaboration, K.Ackerstaff8 et al.
8 CERN, European Organisation for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Received: 30 July 1997 / Published online: 10 March 1998
Abstract
Production of events with hadronic and leptonic final states has been
measured in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 130-172 GeV,
using the OPAL detector at LEP. Cross-sections and leptonic forward-backward
asymmetries are presented, both including and excluding the dominant
production of radiative 
events, and compared to Standard Model
expectations. The ratio 
of the cross-section for 
production to the hadronic cross-section has been measured. In a
model-independent fit to the lineshape, the data have been used to
obtain an improved precision on the measurement of - interference. The energy dependence of 
has been
investigated. The measurements have also been used to obtain limits on
extensions of the Standard Model described by
effective four-fermion contact interactions, to search for t-channel
contributions from new massive particles and to place limits on
gaugino pair production with subsequent decay of the gaugino into a
light gluino and a quark pair.
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