Older Publications


Below is a collection of older publications (updated in 2022) arranged thematically, these include publications, workshops, and seminars. For an up to date list of selected publications, please visit the Selected Publications page or my selection of works at INSPIRE-HEP.

Publications of Experimental Results

Experimental Results
PublicationAuthor(s)Contribution

Inclusive production of \(\pi^{0}\) mesons from photon-proton interactions in the 60 to 170 GeV energy range

Ph. D. Thesis, University of Lancaster 1989

G.W. WilsonAuthor

Inclusive production of \(\pi^{0}\) mesons in \(\pi p\), \(Kp\) and \(\gamma p\) collisions at energies around 100 GeV

Z. Phys. C52 (1991) 397.

WA69 Collab., R.J. Apsimon et al.Major Contribution

Observation of direct soft photon production in \(\pi^{-}p\) interactions at 280 GeV/c

Phys. Lett. B305 (1993) 182

WA83 Collab., S. Banerjee et al.Major Contribution

Search for Pair Produced Stable Singly-Charged Heavy Particles in \(Z^{0}\) Decays

Phys. Lett. B252 (1990) 290

OPAL Collab., M.Z. Akrawy et al.Principal Author

A Direct Measurement of the \(Z^{0}\) Invisible Width by Single Photon Counting

Z. Phys. C50 (1991) 373

OPAL Collab., M.Z. Akrawy et al.Major Contribution

Search for Anomalous Production of High Mass Photon Pairs in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at LEP

Phys. Lett. B311 (1993) 391

OPAL Collab., P.D. Acton et al.Principal Author

Measurement of Single Photon Production in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions near the \(Z^{0}\) Resonance

Z. Phys. C65 (1995) 47

OPAL Collab., R. Akers et al.Principal Author

Topological Search for the Production of Neutralinos and Scalar Particles

Phys. Lett. B377 (1996) 273

OPAL Collab., G. Alexander et al.Major Contribution

Measurements with Photonic Events in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at Centre-of-mass Energies of 130-140 GeV

Phys. Lett. B377 (1996) 222

OPAL Collab.Principal Author

Search for Excited Leptons in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 130 and 136 GeV

Phys. Lett. B386 (1996) 463

OPAL Collab., G. Alexander et al.Substantial Contribution

Search for Excited Leptons in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 161 GeV

Phys. Lett. B391 (1997) 197

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Substantial Contribution

Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 161 GeV

Phys. Lett. B389 (1996) 416

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Major Contribution

Photonic Events with Large Missing Energy in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 161 GeV

Phys. Lett. B391 (1997) 210

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Joint Principal Author

Measurement of the Triple Gauge Boson Coupling \(\alpha_{W\phi}\) from \(W^{+}W^{-}\) Production in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 161 GeV

Phys. Lett. B397 (1997) 147

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Substantial Contribution

Multi-Photon Final States in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 130-172 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C1 (1998) 21

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Important Contribution

Measurement of the \(W\) Boson Mass and \(W^{+}W^{-}\) Production and Decay Properties in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 172 GeV

Eur. Phys. J C1 (1998) 395.

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Major Contribution

Measurement of Triple Gauge Boson Couplings from \(W^{+}W^{-}\) Production at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 172 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C2 (1998) 597

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Substantial Contribution

Search for Unstable Heavy and Excited Leptons in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 170-172 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C1 (1998) 45

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Substantial Contribution

Search for Anomalous Production of Di-lepton Events with Significant Missing Transverse Momentum in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 161-172 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C4 (1998) 47

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Joint Principal Author

Search for Anomalous Production of Photonic Events with Missing Energy in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 130-172 GeV

Eur. Phys. J C2 (1998) 607

OPAL Collab., K. Ackerstaff et al.Joint Principal Author

Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 130-172 GeV

Phys. Lett. B426 (1998) 180

OPAL Collab.,K. Ackerstaff et al.Substantial Contribution

Search for Acoplanar Lepton Pair Events in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Annihilation at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 161, 172 and 183 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C12 (2000) 551

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Joint Principal Author

Search for Chargino and Neutralino Production at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 181-184 GeV at LEP

Eur. Phys. J. C8 (1999) 255

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution

Search for Anomalous Photonic Events with Missing Energy in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\)  130, 136 and 183 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C8 (1999) 23

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Joint Principal Author

\(W^{+}W^{-}\) production and triple gauge boson couplings at LEP energies up to 183 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C8 (1999) 191

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Major Contribution

Search for Higgs Bosons in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at 183 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C7 (1999) 407

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Substantial Contribution

Search for Anomalous Production of Acoplanar Di-lepton Events in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 183 and 189 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C14 (2000) 51

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Joint Principal Author

Search for Chargino and Neutralino Production at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 189 GeV at LEP

Eur. Phys. J. C14 (2000) 187

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution

Photonic Events with Missing Energy in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 189 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C18 (2000) 253

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Joint Principal Author

Searches for Prompt Light Gravitino Signatures in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 189 GeV

Phys. Lett. B501 (2001) 12

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Major Contribution

\(W^{+}W^{-}\) Production Cross Section and W Branching Fractions in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at 189 GeV

Phys. Lett. B493 (2000) 249

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Joint Principal Author

Measurement of the Mass of the \(W\) Boson in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions using the Fully Leptonic Channel

Eur. Phys. J. C26 (2003) 31

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Major Contribution

Multi-Photon Production in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at 181 -209 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C26 (2003) 331

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution

Search for Anomalous Production of Di-lepton Events with Missing Transverse Momentum in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 183-209 GeV

CERN-EP/2003-040. Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C.

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Joint Principal Author

Study us of Z Pair Production and Anomalo Couplings in (e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} =\) between 190 GeV and 209 GeV

Eur. Phys. J. C32 (2003) 303

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution

Measurement of Charged Current Triple Gauge Boson Couplings using \(W\) Pairs at LEP

CERN-EP/2003-042. Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C.

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution
Search for Chargino and Neutralino Production at \(\sqrt{s} =\) 192-209 GeV at LEPOPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution

Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Boson Couplings from \(v\bar{v}\gamma\gamma\) and \(q\bar{q}\gamma\gamma\) Events at LEP2

CERN-EP/2004-xxx. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

OPAL Collab., G. Abbiendi et al.Important Contribution

Publications on Detectors and Experimental Methods

Detectors and Experimental Methods
PublicationAuthor(s)Contribution

Thin, High Gain Wire Chambers for Electromagnetic Presampling in OPAL

Nucl. Instr. Meth. A286 (1990) 117

C. Beard et al.Joint Author

The OPAL Detector at LEP

Nucl. Instr. Meth. A305 (1991) 275

OPAL Collab., K. Ahmet et al.Major Contribution

The Trigger System of the OPAL Experiment at LEP

Nucl. Instr. Meth. A313 (1992) 103

M. Arignon et al.Major Contribution

The Detector Simulation Program for the OPAL Experiment at LEP

Nucl. Instr. Meth. A317 (1992) 47

J. Allison et al.Major Contribution

The Pretrigger System of the OPAL Experiment at LEP

Nucl. Instr. Meth. A333 (1993) 330

M. Arignon et al.Major Contribution

Physics with \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Linear Colliders

Phys. Rep. 299 (1998) 1

E. Accomando et al.Important Contribution

The DZERO Central Track Trigger

in proceedings of 13th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT2003), Montreal, Canada, May 2003 and FERMILAB-PUB-03-157-E

J. Anderson et al.Contributions to track trigger part

The Run IIb Trigger Upgrade for the DZERO Experiment

in proceedings of 13th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT2003), Montreal, Canada, May 2003 and DAPNIA-03-134

M. Abolins et al.Contributions to track trigger part

Run IIb Upgrade Technical Design Report

September 2002, submitted to Department of Energy Lehman Review

DZERO CollaborationContributions to track trigger part

Publications on Phenomenology

Phenomenology
PublicationAuthor(s)

Proposed Post-LEP Benchmarks for Supersymmetry

Eur. Phys. J. C22 (2001) 535

M. Battaglia et al.

The Snowmass Points and Slopes: Benchmarks for SUSY Searches

Accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. C.

B. Allanach et al.

Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings
PublicationAuthor(s)

Single Photon Counting at the \(Z^{0}\) with the OPAL Detector

Pro-ceedings (transparencies) of the AspenWinter Physics Conference January 6th-12th 1991

G.W. Wilson

High Mass Photon Pairs at LEP

Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Marseille, France (July 1993)

G.W. Wilson

QCD Studies in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions with a Cone-based Jet Finder

Proceedings of the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP94), Glasgow, Scotland (July 1994)

G.W. Wilson

Searches for New Particles at LEP2 and 4-jet Status

Proceedings of the XXXIInd Rencontre de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France, 15th-22nd March 1997, pp23-32

G.W. Wilson

Searches at LEP2 for Gravitino LSP Signatures

Proceedings (trans-parencies) of the SUSY98 Conference, Oxford, July 1998

G.W. Wilson

Searches for New Particles at Accelerators

Plenary talk in the UK IoP conference, Salford, April 1999. Available from

G.W. Wilson

Searches at LEP2 for supersymmetric particles and technicolour signals

talk presented at XXXVth Rencontre de Moriond, QCD and hadronic inter-actions, Les Arcs, France, March 2000

G.W. Wilson

Experimental Tests of Extra-Dimensions at an \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Linear Collider

talk presented at the Conference on Higgs and Supersymmetry, LAL, Orsay, France, March 2001

G.W. Wilson

Workshop Contributions

Workshop Contributions
PublicationAuthor(s)

Low energy (80 <\(\sqrt{s}\)<300 GeV) running possibilities

Talks presented in the Experimentation Working Group of the workshop on Physics with \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Linear Colliders, Annecy-Gran Sasso-Hamburg, February-August 1995

G.W. Wilson

Kinematic reconstruction of the W mass : some experimental aspects

Talk presented in the W Mass Working Group, May 1995, in the CERN Workshop on Physics at LEP2.

G.W. Wilson

Single Photon Measurements at LEP1 and LEP2

Talk presented in the Standard Model Processes Working Group, June 1995, in the CERN Workshop on Physics at LEP2

G.W. Wilson

Contributions to the chapters entitled...

“Determination of the Mass of the W Boson” and “Standard Model Processes”

in the Proceedings of the CERN Workshop on Physics at LEP2, CERN Yellow Report CERN 96-01

G.W. Wilson (Contributor)

Measuring the luminosity weighted average centre-of-mass energy with radiative \(Z^{0}\) events

Talk presented in the ECFA/DESYWorkshop on Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider, MPI Munich, 16th September 1996

G.W. Wilson

Contributions to the chapters entitled...

“Particle Physics” and “Detector for the Linear Collider”

in the Report on the “Conceptual Design of a 500 GeV \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Linear Collider with Integrated X-Ray Laser Facility”, DESY-ECFA, 1997

G.W. Wilson (Contributor)

Searches at LEP2 related to possible HERA effect

Oxford Work-shop on LEP2 Physics, April 1997. J. Phys. G. 24 (1998) 444

G.W. Wilson

Detector Hermeticity Concept

Talk presented at the ECFA DESY Linear Collider workshop, Lund, Sweden, June 1998

G.W. Wilson

Testing Lepton Flavour Violating \(Z^{0}\) Decays with a Linear Collider Z Factory

Talk presented at the ECFA/DESY Linear Collider workshop, Frascati, Italy, November 1998

G.W. Wilson

Precision Measurement of the W Mass With a Polarised Thresh-old Scan at a Linear Collider

Proceedings of the International Linear Collider Workshop, LCWS99, Sitges, Spain, pp411-416.

G.W. Wilson

Some Alternative Tests of Standard Supersymmetry at LEP2

IoP Workshop on Collider Phenomenology, Durham UK, September 1999, J. Phys. G. 26 (2000) 570

G. W. Wilson et al. (Co-Author)

Precision Measurement of the Higgs Mass With a Threshold Scan

Talk presented at the ECFA/DESY Linear Collider workshop, Obernai, France, October 1999

G. W. Wilson

Direct Signature of Extra-Dimensions

Talk presented at the ECFA/DESY Linear Collider workshop, Padua, Italy, May 2000

G. W. Wilson

Completing the Sparticle Spectrum at a Multi-TeV Linear Col-lider?

Talk presented at the CLIC Physics Study Workshop (October 6th 2000) and in Proceedings of the International Linear Collider Workshop, LCWS2000, Fer-milab, U.S.A. pp 485-489. October 2000

G. W. Wilson

Precision Measurement of the \(W\) Mass with a Polarised Threshold Scan at a Linear Collider

2nd ECFA-DESY Study, LC-PHSM-2001-009, January 2001

G. W. Wilson

Study of the Sensitivity to Extra-Dimensions in the Photon-Graviton Channel with Polarised Beams

LC-PHSM-2001-010, 2nd ECFA-DESY Study, February 2001

G. W. Wilson

Contributions to Part III:

“Physics at an \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Linear Collider” and Part IV: “A Detector for TESLA”

of the TESLA Technical Design Report, DESY 2001-011, ECFAA 2001-209, March 2001

G. W. Wilson (Contributor)

Contributions to...

"Linear Collider Physics: Resource Book for Snowmass 2001"

May 2001, SLAC-R-570

G. W. Wilson (Contributor)

Direct Investigations of Supersymmetry: Subgroup Summary Report

in proceedings of the APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics, Snowmass, Colorado, July 2001

S.P. Martin, S. Moretti, J. Qian, G.W. Wilson

Single Electron Signal from AMSB at a Future Linear Collider

in proceedings of the APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics, Snowmass, Colorado, July 2001

D. K. Ghosh, S. Moretti, G.W. Wilson

Positron Polarization and Low-Energy Running at a Linear Collider

in proceedings of the APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics, Snowmass, Colorado, July 2001

J. Erler et al.

Direct Tests of Extra Dimensions at a Linear Collider

University of Chicago Linear Collider Workshop, January 2002

G. W. Wilson

Prospects for High Energy Collider Electroweak Measurements

Invited plenary talk at the Low Energy Precision Electroweak Measurements (LEPEM) workshop at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, April 2002

G. W. Wilson

Experimental Aspects of Linear Collider Electro-weak Physics

Workshop on Radiative Corrections for Linear Collider Physics, Brookhaven, New York, May 2002

G. W. Wilson

Compact Silicon-Tungsten-Scintillator Electromagnetic Calorimeter

Talks presented at the ECFA/DESY Linear Collider Workshop, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2003 and at the American Linear Collider Workshop at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 2003

G. W. Wilson

Electromagnetic Calorimetry Research and Development in the Americas

Talk presented at the ECFA Linear Collider Workshop, Montpellier, France, November 2003

G. W. Wilson

Physics Requirements for the Forward Region

Plenary talk pre-sented at the American Linear Collider Physics Group Workshop at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, January 2004

G. W. Wilson

Invited Seminars and Colloquia

Invited Seminars and Colloquia
PublicationsAuthor(s)

Search for Anomalous Production of High Mass Photon Pairs in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Collisions

PPE Seminar at CERN, May 1993

G.W. Wilson

Recent results from OPAL and review of LEP searches for high mass photon pairs

CDF/D0 Seminar, Fermilab. (November 1993)

G.W. Wilson

First Results from the OPAL Collaboration at \(\sqrt{s}=\) 130-140 GeV

Joint CERN Particle Physics Seminar on LEP1.5 Results, 12th December 1995. Scanned transparencies available from CERN Document Server as CERN-PRE-95-005.

G.W. Wilson

Topical Results from Warsaw (ICHEP96)

Joint DESY Seminar, 6th, 7th August 1996. Presented at Hamburg and at Zeuthen, Berlin

G.W. Wilson

OPAL Results at LEP2

Seminar presented at Universities of Alberta, Colorado, Oregon, Michigan, SUNY-Stony Brook and Brookhaven and Fer-milab National Laboratories, 30th September 1996 to 11th October 1996

G.W. Wilson

Recent OPAL Results at LEP2

Seminar presented at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan, February 1997

G.W. Wilson

W Physics with OPAL

Particle Physics Seminar at Saclay, France, 13th October 1997

G.W. Wilson

Missing Energy Searches with OPAL

Seminars at University of Wisconsin, Madison and University of Manchester, March 1998

G.W. Wilson

Physics with Electron-Positron Linear Colliders

IoP Future Prospects in High Energy Physics meeting, Birmingham, UK, June 1999. Transparencies available from

G.W. Wilson

Investigating the Invisible with \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Colliders

Colloquia at the University of Texas, Arlington and the University of Kansas, February 2001

G.W. Wilson

Physics Program of a Next Generation Electron-Positron Linear Collider

Seminars at University of Kansas (October 2001) and Kansas State Uni-versity (May 2002)

G.W. Wilson

Other

Other
PublicationAuthor(s)

A Leading UK Involvement in the Future Linear Collider

Reports of the Linear Collider Panel to the Particle Physics Committee, UK. March and October 2001

G. Blair et al.