Search for quark compositeness, axigluons, and heavy particles using the dijet invariant mass spectrum observed in pp¯ collisions

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 71:16 (1993) 2542-2546

Authors:

F Abe, M Albrow, H Akimoto, D Amidei, C Anway-Wiese, G Apollinari, H Areti, P Auchincloss, F Azfar, P Azzi, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, F Bird, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, C Boswell, T Boulos, G Brandenburg, C Bromberg, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, Y Cen, F Cervelli, J Chapman, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, DP Coupal, D Crane, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, M Deninno, F DeJongh, S Dell’Agnello, M Dell’Orso, L Demortier, B Denby, PF Derwent, T Devlin, M Dickson, JP Done, RB Drucker, A Dunn, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, E Engels, R Ely, S Eno, D Errede, S Errede, A Etchegoyen, Q Fan, B Farhat, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, M Frautschi, J Freeman, J Freidman, H Frisch, A Fry, TA Fuess, Y Fukui, S Funaki, AF Garfinkel, S Geer, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, N Giokaris, P Giormini, L Gladney, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Gonzalez, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, H Grassmann, A Grewal, G Grieco, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, C Haber, SR Hahn, R Hamilton, R Handler, RM Hans, K Hara, B Harral, RM Harris, SA Hauger, J Hauser, C Hawk, J Heinrich, D Hennessy, R Hipple, R Hollebeek, A Hölscher, S Hong, G Houk, P Hu, J Huston, BT Huffman, R Hughes, P Hurst, J Huth, J Hylen, M Incagli, J Incandela, H Iso, H Jensen, CP Jessop, U Joshi, RW Kadel, T Kamon, T Kaneko, DA Kardelis, H Kasha, Y Kato, L Keeble, R Kennedy, R Kephart, P Kesten, RM Keup, H Keutelian, F Keyvan, DH Kim, H Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, L Kirsch, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, S Kopp, K Kordas, W Koska, E Kovacs, M Krasberg, SE Kuhlmann, E Kuns, AT Laasanen, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, T LeCompte, S Leone, JD Lewis, P Limon, M Lindgren, TM Liss, N Lockyer, O Long, M Loreti, EH Low, J Lu, D Lucchesi, CB Luchini, P Lukens, P Maas, K Maeshima, A Maghakian, P Maksimovic, M Mangano, J Mansour, M Mariotti, JP Marriner, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, R Mattingly, P McIntyre, P Melese, A Menzione, E Meschi, S Mikamo, M Miller, R Miller, T Mimashi, S Miscetti, M Mishina, H Mitsushio, S Miyashita, Y Morita, S Moulding, J Mueller, A Mukherjee, T Muller, LF Nakae, I Nakano, C Nelson, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, L Nodulman, S Ogawa, KE Ohl, R Oishi, T Okusawa, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, S Park, J Patrick, G Pauletta, L Pescara, MD Peters, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, M Pillai, R Plunkett, L Pondrom, J Proudfoot, N Produit, F Ptohos, G Punzi, K Ragan, F Rimondi, L Ristori, M Roach-Bellino, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, J Romano, L Rosenson, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, A Sansoni, V Scarpine, A Schindler, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, O Schneider, G Sciacca, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, G Sganos, M Shapiro, NM Shaw, Q Shen, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Singh, P Sinervo, J Skarha, K Sliwa, DA Smith, FD Snider, L Song, T Song, J Spalding, P Sphicas, A Spies, L Stanco, J Steele, A Stefanini, K Strahl, G Sullivan, K Sumorok, RL Swartz, T Takahashi, K Takikawa, F Tartarelli, Y Teramoto, S Tether, D Theriot, J Thomas, R Thun, M Timko, P Tipton, A Titov, S Tkaczyk, A Tollestrup, J Tonnison, J Tseng, M Turcotte, N Turini, F Ukegawa, G Unal, N Uemura, S Vejcik, R Vidal, M Vondracek, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, N Wainer, RC Walker, J Wang, Q Wang, A Warburton, G Watts, T Watts, R Webb, C Wendt, H Wenzel, WC Wester, T Westhusing, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, R Wilkinson, HH Williams, BL Winer, J Wolinski, DY Wu, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, K Yasuoka, Y Ye, GP Yeh, M Yin, J Yoh, T Yoshida, D Yovanovitch, I Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, F Zetti, L Zhang, S Zhang, W Zhang, S Zucchelli

Search for excited electrons using the ZEUS detector

Physics Letters B 316:1 (1993) 207-218

Authors:

M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, S Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, J Thron, F Arzarello, R Ayad, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, P Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, F Ciralli, A Contin, S D'Auria, C Del Papa, F Frasconi, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, Q Lin, B Lisowski, G Maccarrone, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Memoz, F Palmonari, G Sartorelli, R Timellini, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, A Bargende, J Crittenden, H Dabbous, K Desch, B Diekmann, T Doeker, M Geerts, G Geitz, H Hartmann, D Haun, K Heinloth, E Hilger, HP Jakob, S Kramarczyk, M Kückes, A Mass, S Mengel, J Mollen, D Monaldi, H Müsch, E Paul, R Schattevoy, JL Schneider, D Schramm, R Wedemeyer, A Cassidy, DG Cussans, N Dyce, B Foster, R Gilmore, GP Heath, HF Heath, M Lancaster, TJ Llewellyn, J Malos, CJS Morgado, RJ Tapper, SS Wilson, R Yoshida, RR Rau, M Arneodo, T Barillari, M Schioppa, G Susinno, A Bernstein, A Caldwell, I Gialas, JA Parsons, S Ritz, F Sciulli, PB Straub, L Wai, S Yang, J Chwastowski, A Dwuraźny, A Eskreys

Abstract:

This paper reports a search for excited electrons at the HERA electron-proton collider. In a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 26 nb-, no evidence was found for any resonant state decaying into e-γ, νW- or e-Z0. Limits on the coupling strength of an excited electron have been determined for masses between 45 and 225 GeV. This study also reports the observation of the wide-angle eγ Compton scattering process. © 1993.

Study of the decays Λc+→Ξ0K+, Λc+→Σ+K+K-, and Λc+→Ξ-K+π+

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 71:15 (1993) 2391-2395

Authors:

P Avery, A Freyberger, J Rodriguez, R Stephens, J Yelton, D Cinabro, S Henderson, K Kinoshita, T Liu, M Saulnier, R Wilson, H Yamamoto, B Ong, M Selen, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, S Ball, P Baringer, D Coppage, N Copty, R Davis, N Hancock, M Kelly, N Kwak, H Lam, Y Kubota, M Lattery, JK Nelson, S Patton, D Perticone, R Poling, V Savinov, S Schrenk, R Wang, MS Alam, IJ Kim, B Nemati, JJ O’Neill, V Romero, H Severini, CR Sun, MM Zoeller, G Crawford, CM Daubenmier, R Fulton, D Fujino, KK Gan, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, R Malchow, F Morrow, Y Skovpen, M Sung, C White, J Whitmore, P Wilson, F Butler, X Fu, G Kalbfleisch, M Lambrecht, WR Ross, P Skubic, J Snow, PL Wang, M Wood, D Bortoletto, DN Brown, J Fast, RL McIlwain, T Miao, DH Miller, M Modesitt, SF Schaffner, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, PN Wang, M Battle, J Ernst, H Kroha, S Roberts, K Sparks, EH Thorndike, CH Wang, J Dominick, S Sanghera, T Skwarnicki, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, D He, M Goldberg, N Horwitz, R Kennett, GC Moneti, F Muheim, Y Mukhin, S Playfer, Y Rozen, S Stone, M Thulasidas, G Vasseur, G Zhu, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, Z Egyed, V Jain, P Sheldon, DS Akerib, B Barish, M Chadha, S Chan, DF Cowen, G Eigen, JS Miller, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, D Acosta, M Athanas, G Masek, H Paar, M Sivertz, A Bean, J Gronberg, R Kutschke, S Menary, RJ Morrison, S Nakanishi, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, JD Richman, A Ryd, H Tajima, D Schmidt, D Sperka, MS Witherell, M Procario, S Yang, R Balest, K Cho, M Daoudi, WT Ford, DR Johnson, K Lingel, M Lohner, P Rankin, JG Smith, JP Alexander, C Bebek, K Berkelman, D Besson, TE Browder, DG Cassel, HA Cho, DM Coffman, PS Drell, R Ehrlich, M Garcia-Sciveres, B Geiser, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, CD Jones, SL Jones, J Kandaswamy, N Katayama, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, GS Ludwig, J Masui, J Mevissen, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, C O’Grady, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, S Salman, M Sapper, H Worden, M Worris, F Würthwein

Observation of events with a large rapidity gap in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

Physics Letters B 315:3-4 (1993) 481-493

Authors:

M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, S Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, J Thron, F Arzarello, R Ayad, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, P Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, F Ciralli, A Contin, S D'Auria, C Del Papa, F Frasconi, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, Q Lin, B Lisowski, G Maccarrone, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Nemoz, F Palmonari, G Sartorelli, R Timellini, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, A Bargende, J Crittenden, K Desch, B Diekmann, T Doeker, A Frey, M Geerts, G Geitz, H Hartmann, D Haun, K Heinloth, E Hilger, HP Jakob, S Kramarczyk, M Kückes, A Mass, S Mengel, J Mollen, D Monaldi, H Müsch, E Paul, R Schattevoy, JL Schneider, D Schramm, R Wedemeyer, A Cassidy, DG Cussans, N Dyce, B Foster, R Gilmore, GP Heath, HF Heath, M Lancaster, TJ Llewellyn, J Malos, CJS Morgado, RJ Tapper, SS Wilson, R Yoshida, RR Rau, M Arneodo, M Schioppa, G Susinno, A Bernstein, A Caldwell, I Gialas, JA Parsons, S Ritz, F Sciulli, PB Straub, L Wai, S Yang, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Dwuraźny, A Eskreys

Abstract:

In deep inelastic, neutral current scattering of electrons and protons at s=296 GeV, we observe in the ZEUS detector events with a large rapidity gap in the hadronic final state. They occur in the region of small Bjorken x and are observed up to Q2 of 100 GeV2. They account for about 5% of the events with Q2≥10 GeV2. Their general properties are inconsistent with the dominant mechanism of deep inelastic scattering, where color is transferred between the scattered quark and the proton remnant, and suggest that the underlying production mechanism is the diffractive dissociation of the virtual photon. © 1993.

Measurement of the D→ππ branching fractions

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 71:13 (1993) 1973-1977

Authors:

M Selen, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, S Ball, P Baringer, D Coppage, N Copty, R Davis, N Hancock, M Kelly, N Kwak, H Lam, Y Kubota, M Lattery, JK Nelson, S Patton, D Perticone, R Poling, V Savinov, S Schrenk, R Wang, MS Alam, IJ Kim, B Nemati, JJ O’Neill, H Severini, CR Sun, MM Zoeller, G Crawford, CM Daubenmeir, R Fulton, D Fujino, KK Gan, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, R Malchow, F Morrow, Y Skovpen, M Sung, C White, J Whitmore, P Wilson, F Butler, X Fu, G Kalbfleisch, M Lambrecht, WR Ross, P Skubic, J Snow, PL Wang, M Wood, D Bortoletto, DN Brown, J Fast, RL McIlwain, T Miao, DH Miller, M Modesitt, SF Schaffner, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, PN Wang, M Battle, J Ernst, H Kroha, S Roberts, K Sparks, EH Thorndike, CH Wang, J Dominick, S Sanghera, T Skwarnicki, R Stroynowski, M Artuso, D He, M Goldberg, N Horwitz, R Kennett, GC Moneti, F Muheim, Y Mukhin, S Playfer, Y Rozen, S Stone, M Thulasidas, G Vasseur, G Zhu, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, Z Egyed, V Jain, P Sheldon, DS Akerib, B Barish, M Chadha, S Chan, DF Cowen, G Eigen, JS Miller, C O’Grady, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, D Acosta, M Athanas, G Masek, B Ong, H Paar, M Sivertz, A Bean, J Gronberg, R Kutschke, S Menary, RJ Morrison, S Nakanishi, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, JD Richman, A Ryd, H Tajima, D Schmidt, D Sperka, MS Witherell, M Procario, S Yang, R Balest, K Cho, M Daoudi, WT Ford, DR Johnson, K Lingel, M Lohner, P Rankin, JG Smith, JP Alexander, C Bebek, K Berkelman, D Besson, TE Browder, DG Cassel, HA Cho, DM Coffman, PS Drell, R Ehrlich, M Garcia-Sciveres, B Geiser, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, CD Jones, SL Jones, J Kandaswamy, N Katayama, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, GS Ludwig, J Masui, J Mevissen, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, S Salman, M Sapper, H Worden, F Würthwein, P Avery, A Freyberger, J Rodriguez, R Stephens, J Yelton, D Cinabro, S Henderson, K Kinoshita, T Liu, M Saulnier, F Shen, R Wilson, H Yamamoto