An Overview of DELPHI and its results

A shor t descriptio n o f th e DELPH I detecto r an d o f it s performance s i s followe d b y tw o section s devote d t o th e result s o n th e Z-lin e shap e obtaine d wit h 68,00 0 hadroni c event s collecte d i n th e first yea r o f dat a takin g a t LEP . Th e las t section s summaris e a numbe r o f other result s obtaine d i n man y differen t areas : particl e searches , multiplicit y distributions , QCD , heav y flavour decays .