UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Inclusive search for the charmless radiative decay of the b-quark (b L3 Collaboration

General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Download date: 29 Jun 2019 Physics Letters B 317 ( 1993 ) We report on the search for the electromagnetic penguin decay b --* s7 at v~ ~ mz. We find no evidence for a signal and place an upper limit on the decay rate Br(b ~ s~,) < 1.2 × 10 -3 at 90% C.L

Measurement of inclusive production of neutral hadrons from Z decays

Abstract We present a study of the inclusive production of 7r °, r I, K ° and A based on 929,000 hadronic Z decays recorded with the L3 detector at LEP. The measured inclusive momentum distributions have been compared with predictions from parton shower models as well as an analytical Quantum Chromodynamics calculation. Comparing to low energy e+e -data, we find that QCD describes the energy evolution of the hadron spectrum

UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Determination of the effective electroweak mixing angle from Z decays L3 Collaboration

General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. The effective electroweak mixing angle sin 20w is measured from the production and decay of the Z boson in e+e -interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 18 pb-l with about 420 000 hadronic and 40 000 leptonic Z decays. The mixing angle sin 20w is determined from several independent measurements: the leptonic and hadronic cross sections, the forward-backward asymmetries of charged leptons and b-quarks, and the z-polarization. The results are found to be in good agreement with each other. The value of sin 20w from a fit to the asymmetries in a model independent method is 0.2321-4-0.0021 and from a global fit to the data in the Standard Model framework is 0.2328+0.0013