Measurement of the cross section of W-boson pair production at LEP

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 600, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 22-40

  Achard, P ^t   Adriani, O ^q   Aguilar Benitez, M ^y   Alcaraz, J ^y   Alemanni, G ^w   Allaby, J ^r   Aloisio, A ^ac   Alviggi, M G ^ac   Anderhub, H ^aw   Andreev, V P ^f,ah   Anselmo, F ^h   Arefiev, A ^ab   Azemoon, T ^c   Aziz, T ⁱ   Bagnaia, P ^am   Bajo, A ^y   Baksay, G ^z   Baksay, L ^z   Baldew, S V ^b   Banerjee, S ^d,i   Barczyk, A ^au,aw   Barillere R ^r   Bartalini, P ^w   Basile, M ^h   Batalova, N ^at   Battiston, R ^ag   Bay, A ^w   Becattini, F ^q   Becker, U ^m   Behner, F ^aw   Bellucci, L ^q   Berbeco, R ^c   Berdugo, J ^y   Berges, P ^m   Bertucci, B ^ag   Betev, B L ^aw   Biasini, M ^ag   Biglietti, M ^ac   Biland, A ^aw   Blaising, J J ^d   Blyth, S C ^ai   Bobbink, G J ^b   Bohm A ^a   Boldizsar, L ^l   Borgia, B ^am   Bottai, S ^q   Bourilkov, D ^aw   Bourquin, M ^ax   Braccini, S ^ax   Branson, J G ^ao   Brochu, F ^d   Burger, J D ^m   Burger, W J ^ag   Button, A ^c   Cai, X D ^m   Capell, M ^m   Cara Romeo, G ^h   Carlino, G ^ac   Cartacci, A ^q   Casaus, 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Zhuang, H L ^g   Zichichi, A ^h,r,s   Zimmermann, B ^aw   Zoller M ^a   more..

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

ⁱ TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^j NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^l INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^m MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^o INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^r CERN   (Switzerland)

^s WORLD LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^u UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^v UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^w UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^x UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^y CIEMAT   (Spain)

^z FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^aa INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^ab INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^ac INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^ae RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^af CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^ah PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^ai CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^ak PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^al UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^am SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^an UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ap BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^aq Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^ar NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^as NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^at PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^au PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^av DESY   (Germany)

^aw ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^ax NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOSON; ENERGY; FERMION; HADRON; LEPTON; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; SAMPLE;

EID: 4644371321     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.08.060     Document Type: Article

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