Measurement and interpretation of fermion-pair production at LEP energies above the Z resonance

This paper presents DELPHI measurements and interpretations of cross-sections, forward-backward asymmetries, and angular distributions, for the e-e- → ff̄ process for centre-of-mass energies above the Z resonance, from √s ∼ 130-207 GeV at the LEP collider. The measurements are consistent with the pr...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Abdallah, J, Abreu, P, Adam, W, Adzic, P, Albrecht, T, Alderweireld, T, Alemany-Fernandez, R, Allmendinger, T, Allport, P, Amaldi, U, Amapane, N, Amato, S, Anashkin, E, Andreazza, A, Andringa, S, Anjos, N, Antilogus, P, Apel, W, Arnoud, Y, Ask, S, Asman, B, Augustin, J, Augustinus, A, Baillon, P, Ballestrero, A
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2006
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Sammanfattning:This paper presents DELPHI measurements and interpretations of cross-sections, forward-backward asymmetries, and angular distributions, for the e-e- → ff̄ process for centre-of-mass energies above the Z resonance, from √s ∼ 130-207 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 e -e- → ff̄ 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 ṽ in R-parity violating supersymmetry.