M. Acciarri et al., MEASUREMENT OF HADRON AND LEPTON-PAIR PRODUCTION AT 161-GEV-LESS-THAN-ROOT-S-LESS-THAN-172-GEV AT LEP, Physics letters. Section B, 407(3-4), 1997, pp. 361-376
We report on measurements of e(+)e(-) annihilation into hadrons and le
pton pairs. The data have been taken with the L3 detector at LEP at ce
nter-of-mass energies between 161 GeV and 172 GeV. In a data sample co
rresponding to 21.2 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity 2728 hadronic and
868 lepton-pair events are selected. The measured cross sections and l
eptonic forward-backward asymmetries agree well with the Standard Mode
l predictions. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.