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Search for contact interactions in deep inelastic e+p → e+X scattering at HERA

European Physical Journal C 14:2 (2000) 239-254

Authors:

J Breitweg, S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Stanek, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, G Abbiendi, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, N Coppola, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, YZ Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Eckert, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, L Heinz, E Hilger, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, E Paul, M Pfeiffer, J Rautenberg, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, A Weber, H Wieber, DS Bailey, O Barret, WN Cottingham, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, JD McFall, D Piccioni, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, HY Jeoung, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, KJ Ma, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, B Mellado, JA Parsons, S Ritz, R Sacchi, S Sampson, F Sciulli, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Klimek

Abstract:

In a search for signatures of physics processes beyond the Standard Model, various eeqq vector contact-interaction hypotheses have been tested using the high-Q2 deep inelastic neutral-current e+p scattering data collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 47.7pb-1 of e+p interactions at 300 GeV center-of-mass energy. No significant evidence of a contact-interaction signal has been found. Limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the contact-interaction amplitudes. The effective mass scales Λ corresponding to these limits range from 1.7 TeV to 5 TeV for the contact-interaction scenarios considered.
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Search for resonances decaying to e+-jet in e+p interactions at HERA

European Physical Journal C 16:2 (2000) 253-267

Authors:

J Breitweg, S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Stanek, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, G Abbiendi, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, N Coppola, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, E Paul, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, H Wieber, DS Bailey, O Barret, NH Brook, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, JD McFall, D Piccioni, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, HY Jeoung, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, KJ Ma, MY Pac, A Caldwell, W Liu, X Liu, B Mellado, S Paganis, R Sacchi, S Sampson, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Klimek, K Olkiewicz, K Piotrzkowski, MB Przybycień, P Stopa, L Zawiejski

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The e+-jet invariant mass spectrum produced in the reaction e+p → e+ X has been studied at a center-of-mass energy of 300 GeV. The data were collected using the ZEUS detector operating at the HERA collider, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 47.7 pb-1. The observed mass spectrum is in good agreement with Standard Model expectations up to an e+-jet mass of 210 GeV. Above this mass, some excess is seen. The angular distribution of these events is typical of high-Q2 neutral current events and does not give convincing evidence for the presence of a narrow scalar or vector state. Limits are presented on the product of cross section and branching ratio for such a state and are interpreted as limits on leptoquark or R-parity-violating squark production. Specific leptoquark types are ruled out at 95% confidence level for coupling strength λ = 0.3 for masses between 150 and 280 GeV.
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Simulations of the propagation of high-intensity laser pulses in discharge-ablated capillary waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 17:9 (2000) 1565-1570

Authors:

DJ Spence, SM Hooker

Abstract:

We present the results of simulations of the propagation of high-intensity laser pulses in discharge-ablated capillary waveguides. The limitations of this type of waveguide for pulse intensities of the order of 1016 W cm-2 are discussed. However, for higher intensities we describe a new regime of quasi-matched guiding, that results in significant improvements in guiding performance. The effect on quasi-matched guiding of changing the atomic numbers of the atoms that compose the plasma waveguide is discussed. Calculations are presented for boron capillaries that show quasi-matched guiding over lengths of 32 mm for an input intensity of 5 × 10 17 Wcm-2. © 2000 Optical Society of America.
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Simulations of the propagation of high-intensity laser pulses in discharge-ablated capillary waveguides

Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest (2000) 293-294

Authors:

DJ Spence, SM Hooker

Abstract:

An overview is given on the results of numerical simulations of the propagation of high-intensity pules through discharge-ablated capillary waveguides. The numerical code solves the paraxial wave equation for a plasma undergoing optical field ionization, and so accounts for refractive defocusing due to further ionization by the propagating pulse.
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W production and the search for events with an isolated high-energy lepton and missing transverse momentum at HERA

PHYSICS LETTERS B 471:4 (2000) 411-428

Authors:

J Breitweg, S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, A Pellegrino, J Repond, R Stanek, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, G Abbiendi, F Anselmo, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, GC Romeo, G Castellini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, N Coppola, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, G Sartorelli, YZ Garcia, A Zichichi, C Amelung, A Bornheim, I Brock, K Coböken, J Crittenden, R Deffner, M Eckert, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, E Hilger, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, E Paul, J Rautenberg, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, A Weber, H Wieber, DS Bailey, O Barret, WN Cottingham, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, JD McFall, D Piccioni, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, HY Jeoung, JY Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, KJ Ma, MY Pac, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, Z Jing, W Liu, B Mellado, JA Parsons, S Ritz, R Sacchi, S Sampson, F Sciulli, Q Zhu, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Klimek, K Olkiewicz, MB Przybycien, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, B Bednarek, K Jelen, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, T Kowalski, M Przybycien, E Rulikowska-Zarebska, L Suszycki, J Zajac, Z Dulinski, A Kotanski, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens, JK Bienlein, C Burgard, K Desler, G Drews, A Fox-Murphy, U Fricke, F Goebel, P Göttlicher, R Graciani, T Haas, W Hain, GF Hartner, D Hasell, K Hebbel, KF Johnson, M Kasemann, W Koch, U Kötz, H Kowalski, L Lindemann, B Löhr, M Martínez, J Milewski, M Milite, T Monteiro, M Moritz, D Notz, F Pelucchi, K Piotrzkowski, M Rohde, PRB Saull, AA Savin, U Schneekloth, O Schwarzer, F Selonke, M Sievers, S Stonjek, E Tassi, G Wolf, U Wollmer, C Youngman, W Zeuner, BD Burow, C Coldewey, HJ Grabosch, ALD Viani, A Meyer, K Mönig, S Schlenstedt, PB Straub, G Barbagli, E Gallo, P Pelfer, G Maccarrone, L Votano, A Bamberger, S Eisenhardt, P Markun, H Raach, S Wölfle, NH Brook, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, SW Lee, N Macdonald, GJ McCance, DH Saxon, LE Sinclair, IO Skillicorn, E Strickland, R Waugh, I Bohnet, N Gendner, U Holm, A Meyer-Larsen, H Salehi, K Wick, A Garfagnini, I Gialas, LK Gladilin, D Kçira, R Klanner, E Lohrmann, G Poelz, F Zetsche, TC Bacon, JE Cole, G Howell, L Lamberti, KR Long, DB Miller, A Prinias, JK Sedgbeer, D Sideris, AD Tapper, R Walker, U Mallik, SM Wang, P Cloth, D Filges, T Ishii, M Kuze, I Suzuki, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, K Yamauchi, Y Yamazaki, SH Ahn, SH An, SJ Hong, SB Lee, SW Nam, SK Park, H Lim, IH Park, D Son, F Barreiro, JP Fernández, G García, C Glasman, JM Hernández, L Labarga, J del Peso, J Puga, I Redondo, J Terrón, F Corriveau, DS Hanna, J Hartmann, WN Murray, A Ochs, S Padhi, M Riveline, DG Stairs, M St-Laurent, M Wing, T Tsurugai, V Bashkirov, BA Dolgoshein, GL Bashindzhagyan, PF Ermolov, YA Golubkov, LA Khein, NA Korotkova, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, AN Solomin, SA Zotkin, C Bokel, M Botje, N Brümmer, J Engelen, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, A van Sighem, H Tiecke, N Tuning, JJ Velthuis, W Verkerke, J Vossebeld, L Wiggers, E de Wolf, D Acosta, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, J Gilmore, CM Ginsburg, CL Kim, TY Ling, P Nylander, HE Blaikley, S Boogert, RJ Cashmore, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, JK Edmonds, J Grosse-Knetter, N Harnew, T Matsushita, VA Noyes, A Quadt, O Ruske, MR Sutton, R Walczak, DS Waters, A Bertolin, R Brugnera, R Carlin, F Dal Corso, S Dondana, U Dosselli, S Dusini, S Limentani, M Morandin, M Posocco, L Stanco, R Stroili, C Voci, L Iannotti, BY Oh, JR Okrasinski, WS Toothacker, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, M Raso, C Cormack, JC Hart, NA McCubbin, TP Shah, D Epperson, C Heusch, HFW Sadrozinski, A Seiden, R Wichmann, DC Williams, N Pavel, H Abramowicz, S Dagan, S Kananov, A Kreisel, A Levy, T Abe, T Fusayasu, M Inuzuka, K Nagano, K Umemori, T Yamashita, R Hamatsu, T Hirose, K Homma, S Kitamura, T Nishimura, M Arneodo, R Cirio, M Costa, MI Ferrero, S Maselli, V Monaco, C Peroni, MC Petrucci, M Ruspa, A Solano, A Staiano, M Dardo, DC Bailey, CP Fagerstroem, R Galea, T Koop, GM Levman, JF Martin, RS Orr, S Polenz, A Sabetfakhri, D Simmons, JM Butterworth, CD Catterall, ME Hayes, EA Heaphy, TW Jones, JB Lane, BJ West, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, G Grzelak, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, R Pawlak, B Smalska, T Tymieniecka, AK Wróblewski, JA Zakrzewski, AF Zarnecki, M Adamus, T Gadaj, O Deppe, Y Eisenberg, D Hochman, U Karshon, WF Badgett, D Chapin, R Cross, C Foudas, S Mattingly, DD Reeder, WH Smith, A Vaiciulis, T Wildschek, M Wodarczyk, A Deshpande, S Dhawan, VW Hughes, S Bhadra, WR Frisken, R Hall-Wilton, M Khakzad, S Menary, WB Schmidke
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