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Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries. / ALEPH Collaboration.
In: Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, Vol. 62, No. 4, 1994, p. 539-550.

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ALEPH Collaboration 1994, 'Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries', Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 539-550. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574159

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ALEPH Collaboration (1994). Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, 62(4), 539-550. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574159

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ALEPH Collaboration. Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields. 1994;62(4):539-550. doi: 10.1007/BF01574159

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ALEPH Collaboration. / Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries. In: Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields. 1994 ; Vol. 62, No. 4. pp. 539-550.

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title = "Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward-backward asymmetries",
abstract = "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 σh0 =(41.60±0.16) nb, andRl=20.69±0.09. The corresponding number of light neutrino species isNv =2.983±0.034. The lepton pair forward-backward asymmetry is used to derive the ratio of vector to axial-vector couplings of leptons:gV2(MZ2)/gA2(MZ2)=0.0058 ±0.0011. An application of these results to constrain one model with extraZ bosons is presented.",
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AB - 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 σh0 =(41.60±0.16) nb, andRl=20.69±0.09. The corresponding number of light neutrino species isNv =2.983±0.034. The lepton pair forward-backward asymmetry is used to derive the ratio of vector to axial-vector couplings of leptons:gV2(MZ2)/gA2(MZ2)=0.0058 ±0.0011. An application of these results to constrain one model with extraZ bosons is presented.

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