https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02461-0
Experimental Physics
Measurement and interpretation of fermion-pair production at LEP energies above the Z resonance
Received:
18
October
2005
Revised:
7
December
2005
Published online:
24
January
2006
This paper presents DELPHI measurements and interpretations of cross-sections, forward-backward asymmetries, and angular distributions, for the 
process for centre-of-mass energies above the Z resonance, from 
-207 GeV at the LEP collider. The measurements are consistent with the predictions of the Standard Model and are used to study a variety of models including the S-Matrix ansatz for scattering and several models which include physics beyond the Standard Model: the exchange of Z′ bosons, contact interactions between fermions, the exchange of gravitons in large extra dimensions and the exchange of 
in R-parity violating supersymmetry.
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Alan Segar.
© Springer-Verlag, 2006
