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Results from the L3 Experiment at LEP

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QCD at 200 TeV

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The large Electron-Positron collider LEP at CERN was commissioned in Summer 1989 and lias produced three quarter of a million Z0 as of this writing (July 1991). The data were collected by four detectors known as ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL. We describe here some of the results obtained sofar by the L3 experiment concerning precision tests of the standard model, B\(\bar B\)mixing, determination of the strong coupling constant, Higss and other particle searches. Since the collaboration has produced 32 publications to date, what follows will be a brief survey of the main results with reference to the corresponding publications for details of the analysis procedure.

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    Luisa Cifarelli

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Lecomte, P. (1992). Results from the L3 Experiment at LEP. In: Cifarelli, L., Dokshitzer, Y. (eds) QCD at 200 TeV. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 60. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3440-2_6

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