Measurement of hadron and lepton-pair production from e+e− annihilation at centre-of-mass energies of 130 and 136 GeV

UNSPECIFIED (1996) Measurement of hadron and lepton-pair production from e+e− annihilation at centre-of-mass energies of 130 and 136 GeV. Physics Letters B, 378 (1-4). pp. 373-384. ISSN 0370-2693

Abstract

Hadronic and leptonic cross-sections and forward-backward asymmetries are measured using 5.7 pb−1 of data taken with the ALEPH detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies of 130 and 136 GeV. The results agree with Standard Model expectations. The measurement of hadronic cross-sections far away from the Z resonance improves the determination of the interference between photon and Z exchange. Constraints on models with extra Z bosons are presented.