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Irreversibility and Causality Semigroups and Rigged Hilbert Spaces

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The Z line shape is measured at LEP/CERN with an accuracy at the per mille level. Usually it is described in the Standard Model of electroweak interactions with account of quantum corrections. Alternatively, one may attempt an S-matrix based model-independent approach in order to extract quantities like mass and width of the Z boson. I describe the formalism and its application to data.

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Riemann, T. (1998). Z boson resonance parameters. In: Bohm, A., Doebner, HD., Kielanowski, P. (eds) Irreversibility and Causality Semigroups and Rigged Hilbert Spaces. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 504-504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0106782

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