Limits on quark compositeness from high energy jets in p̄p collisions at 1.8 TeV
Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 62:3 (2000) 1-6
Authors:
B Abbott, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, V Akimov, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, A Baden, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, P Baringer, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, A Bean, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, S Feher, D Fein
Abstract:
Events in p̄p collisions at √s= 1.8 TeV with total transverse energy exceeding 500 GeV are used to set limits on quark substructure. The data are consistent with next-to-leading order QCD calculations. We set a lower limit of 2.0 TeV at 95% confidence on the energy scale ΛLL for compositeness in quarks, assuming a model with a left-left isoscalar contact interaction term. The limits on ΛLL are found to be insensitive to the sign of the interference term in the Lagrangian. ©2000 The American Physical Society.
