Determination of the number of light neutrino species from single photon production at LEP

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作者
Acciarri, M
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Ahlen, S
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillere, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Baschirotto, A
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Bilei, GM
Bizzarri, R
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Bohm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[9] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[16] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[17] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[19] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[20] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[21] Univ Florence, I-50139 Florence, Italy
[22] INFN, Sez Firenze, I-50139 Florence, Italy
[23] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[26] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[27] SEFT, Res Inst High Energy Phys, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[28] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[29] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[30] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[31] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[32] Univ Claude Bernard, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[33] CIEMAT, Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[34] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[37] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[38] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[41] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[43] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[44] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[45] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Inst Phys Nucl, St Petersburg, Russia
[49] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] INFN, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00519-X
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摘要
A determination of the number of light neutrino families performed by measuring the cross section of single photon production in e(+)e(-) collision near the Z resonance is reported. From an integrated luminosity of 100 pb(-1), collected during the years 1991-94, we have observed 2091 single photon candidates with an energy above 1 GeV in the polar angular region 45 degrees < theta(gamma) < 135 degrees. From a maximum likelihood fit to the single photon cross section, the Z decay width into invisible particles is measured to be Gamma(inv) = 498 +/- 12(stat) +/- 12(sys)MeV. Using the Standard Model couplings of neutrinos to the Z, the number of light neutrino species is determined to be N-v = 2.98 +/- 0.07(stat) +/- 0.07(sys). (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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