Professor Tony Weidberg

Abstract:

A study has been made of the decays W → ev and Z → e+e-, using the UA2 detector at the CERN p̄p Collider. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 142 nb-1 at a centre-of-mass collision energy √s=546 GeV, and 768 nb-1 at √s=630 GeV. Measurements of the standard model parameters from samples of 251 W decay and 39 Z decay candidates are compared with expectations of the standard electroweak model. © 1987.

Abstract:

The invariant mass distribution of jet pairs observed in the UA2 central calorimeter is examined in the search for an excess of events in the region of the W± and Z bosons, which would reveal their decays into quark-antiquark pairs. We give a detailed account of the methods of analysis used to optimize the mass resolution achieving ≅±10%. A structure is observed at the level of ≅ 3 standard deviations in the mass region of W± and Z with shape and position consistent with expectation from their qq̄decays. It contains 632 ± 190 events, 1.4 standard deviations above the standard model prediction of 340 ± 80 events. © 1987.

Abstract:

We analyze the energy density distribution in harronic final states as a function of their total transverse energy measured in the segmented central calorimeter of the UA2 detector. The energy dependence of collective shape variables is investigated. The data, collected at the CERN {Mathematical expression}p Collider at {Mathematical expression} GeV, exhibit strong variations in all these variables over the transverse energy range between 15 and 210 GeV, corresponding to substantial modifications in the structure of multihadronic final states. The evolution of the energy density distribution and of the collective shape variables shows a clear transition between two extreme dynamical regimes, respectively dominated by pT-limited phase space and by collimated two-jet configurations. A study of the relative populations of two-and three-jet systems reveals two different sources of configurations having three distinct lobes in the pattern of the energy-flow. A first component, steeply falling with energy, receives substantial contributions from soft parton collisions at lower transverse energies. Above 60 GeV a new hard component emerges, characterized by an approximately constant rate with respect to the dominant two-jet structures. © 1987 Springer-Verlag.