Data taken with the ARGUS detector at DESY, Hamburg, specifically tt pairs produced from e+e -- collisions in the energy range (10.4--10.6)GeV, are used to make a precision measurement of the tau lifetime. A new method is introduced which is independent of the beam position and envelope, and applicable to tau events having one-three topology. Applied to ARGUS data the method yields a value for the tau lifetime of tt=287+/-11st atistical+/-8systemat icfs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.34676 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Saull, P. R. B. (Patrick Richard Behrendt) |
| Contributors | MacFarlane, David B. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001619109, proquestno: NQ37020, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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