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
| Publication | Author(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. Wilson | Author |
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 LEP | OPAL 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
| Publication | Author(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 Collaboration | Contributions to track trigger part |
Publications on Phenomenology
| Publication | Author(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
| Publication | Author(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
| Publication | Author(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
| Publications | Author(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
| Publication | Author(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. |