Search for resonance decays to lepton+jet at DESY HERA and limits on leptoquarks

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 68:5 (2003) 520041-5200415

Authors:

S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, JH Loizides, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, O Kind, U Meyer, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, M Wang, A Weber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, Y Ning, S Paganis, Z Ren, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bołd, I Grabowska-Bołd, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, M Przybycień, L Suszycki, D Szuba, J Szuba, A Kotański, W Slomiński, V Adler

Abstract:

A search for narrow-width resonances that decay into electron+jet or neutrino+jet has been performed with the ZEUS detector at the DESY ep collider HERA operating at center-of-mass energies of 300 and 318 GeV. An integrated e+p luminosity of 114.8 pb-1 and e-p luminosity of 16.7 pb-1 were used. No evidence for any resonance was found. Limits were derived on the Yukawa coupling λ as a function of the mass of a hypothetical resonance that has arbitrary decay branching ratios into eq or vq. These limits also apply to squarks predicted by R-parity-violating supersymmetry. Limits for the production of leptoquarks described by the Buchmüller-Rückl-Wyler model were also derived for masses up to 400 GeV. For λ = 0.1, leptoquark masses up to 290 GeV are excluded.

Demonstration of lasing at 41.8 nm in Xe8+ driven in a plasma waveguide

P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 5197 (2003) 105-118

Authors:

A Butler, AJ Gonsalves, CM McKenna, DJ Spence, SM Hooker, S Sebban, T Mocek, I Bettaibi, B Cros

Abstract:

We describe the first demonstration of a collisionally-excited optical field ionisation laser driven within a gas-filled capillary waveguide. Lasing on the 4d(9)5d-4d(9)5p transition at 41.8 nm in Xe8+ was observed to be closely-correlated to conditions under which the pump laser pulses were guided well by the waveguide. Simulations of the propagation of the pump laser radiation show that gain was achieved over essentially the whole 30 mm length of the waveguide.

Measurement of high-Q2 e-p neutral current cross sections at HERA and the extraction of xF3

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 28:2 (2003) 175-201

Authors:

S Chekanov, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, GC Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, J Crittenden, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, O Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, Y Ning, S Paganis, Z Ren, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, K Piotrzkowski, MB Przybycien, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bold, I Grabowska-Bold, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, M Przybycien, A Kotanski, W Slominski, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens, K Borras, DC Cassel, V Chiochia, D Darmheim, M Derrick, G Drews, J Fourletova, A Fox-Murphy, U Fricke, A Geiser, F Goebel, P Göttlicher, O Gutsche, T Haas, W Hain, GF Hartner, S Hillert, U Kötz, H Kowalski, G Kramberger, H Labes, D Lelas, B Löhr, R Mankel, M Martínez, IA Melzer-Pellmann, M Moritz, D Notz, MC Petrucci, A Polini, A Raval, U Schneekloth, F Selonke, B Surrow, H Wessoleck, R Wichmann, G Wolf, C Youngman, W Zeuner, ALD Viani, A Meyer, S Schlenstedt, G Barbagli, E Gallo, C Genta, PG Pelfer, A Bamberger, A Benen, N Coppola, H Raach, M Bell, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, C Glasman, S Hanlon, SW Lee, A Lupi, GJ McCance, DH Saxon, IO Skillicorn, I Gialas, B Bodmann, T Carli, U Holm, K Klimek, N Krumnack, E Lohrmann, M Milite, H Salehi, S Stonjek, K Wick, A Ziegler, A Ziegler, C Collins-Tooth, C Foudas, R Gonçalo, KR Long, F Metlica, DB Miller, AD Tapper, R Walker, P Cloth, D Filges, M Kuze, K Nagano, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, AN Barakbaev, EG Boos, NS Pokrovskiy, BO Zhautykov, H Lim, D Son, F Barreiro, O González, L Labarga, J del Peso, I Redondo, J Terrón, M Vázquez, M Barbi, A Bertolin, F Corriveau, A Ochs, S Padhi, DG Stairs, M St-Laurent, T Tsurugai, A Antonov, P Danilov, BA Dolgoshein, D Gladkov, V Sosnovtsev, S Suchkov, RK Dementiev, PF Ermolov, YA Golubkov, II Katkov, LA Khein, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, BB Levchenko, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, NN Vlasov, SA Zotkin, C Bokel, J Engelen, S Grijpink, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, E Maddox, A Pellegrino, S Schagen, E Tassi, H Tiecke, N Tuning, JJ Velthuis, L Wiggers, E de Wolf, N Brümmer, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, J Gilmore, CM Ginsburg, CL Kim, TY Ling, S Boogert, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, J Ferrando, G Grzelak, T Matsushita, M Rigby, O Ruske, MR Sutton, R Walczak, R Brugnera, R Carlin, F Dal Corso, S Dusini, A Garfagnini, S Limentani, A Longhin, A Parenti, M Posocco, L Stanco, M Turcato, EA Heaphy, BY Oh, PRB Saull, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, C Cormack, JC Hart, NA McCubbin, C Heusch, IH Park, N Pavel, H Abramowicz, A Gabareen, S Kananov, A Kreisel, A Levy, T Abe, T Fusayasu, S Kagawa, T Kohno, T Tawara, T Yamashita, R Hamatsu, T Hirose, M Inuzuka, S Kitamura, K Matsuzawa, T Nishimura, M Arneodo, N Cartiglia, R Cirio, M Costa, MI Ferrero, S Maselli, V Monaco, C Peroni, M Ruspa, R Sacchi, A Solano, A Staiano, R Galea, T Koop, GM Levman, JF Martin, A Mirea, A Sabetfakhri, JM Butterworth, C Gwenlan, R Hall-Wilton, TW Jones, MS Lightwood, JH Loizides, BJ West, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, B Smalska, J Sztuk, T Tymieniecka, A Ukleja, J Ukleja, AF Zarnecki, A Adamus, P Plucinski, Y Eisenberg, LK Gladilin, D Hochman, U Karshon, D Kçira, S Lammers, L Li, DD Reeder, AA Savin, WH Smith, A Deshpande, S Dhawan, VW Hughes, PB Straub, S Bhadra, CD Catterall, S Fourletov, S Menary, M Soares, J Standage

Measurement of proton-dissociative diffractive photoproduction of vector mesons at large momentum transfer at HERA

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 26:3 (2003) 389-409

Authors:

S Chekanov, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, GC Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Levi, A Margotti, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, J Crittenden, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, R Kerger, O Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, A Weber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, S Paganis, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, K Piotrzkowski, MB Przybycien, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, B Bednarek, I Grabowska-Bold, K Jelen, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, B Mindur, M Przybycien, E Rulikowska-Zarebska, L Suszycki, D Szuba, J Szuba, A Kotanski, W Slominski, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens, K Borras, V Chiochia, D Darmheim, M Derrick, G Drews, J Fourletova, A Fox-Murphy, U Fricke, A Geiser, F Goebel, P Göttlicher, O Gutsche, T Haas, W Hain, GF Hartner, S Hillert, U Kötz, H Kowalski, H Labes, D Lelas, B Löhr, R Mankel, M Martínez, M Moritz, D Notz, IA Pellmann, MC Petrucci, A Polini, A Raval, U Schneekloth, F Selonke, B Surrow, H Wessoleck, R Wichmann, G Wolf, C Youngman, W Zeuner, ALD Viani, A Meyer, S Schlenstedt, G Barbagli, E Gallo, C Genta, PG Pelfer, A Bamberger, A Benen, N Coppola, H Raach, M Bell, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, C Glasman, S Hanlon, SW Lee, A Lupi, GJ McCance, DH Saxon, IO Skillicorn, I Gialas, B Bodmann, T Carli, U Holm, K Klimek, N Krumnack, E Lohrmann, M Milite, H Salehi, S Stonjek, K Wick, A Ziegler, A Ziegler, C Collins-Tooth, C Foudas, R Gonçalo, KR Long, F Metlica, DB Miller, AD Tapper, R Walker, P Cloth, D Filges, M Kuze, K Nagano, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, AN Barakbaev, EG Boos, NS Pokrovskiy, BO Zhautykov, H Lim, D Son, F Barreiro, O González, L Labarga, J del Peso, I Redondo, J Terrón, M Vázquez, M Barbi, A Bertolin, F Corriveau, A Ochs, S Padhi, DG Stairs, M St-Laurent, T Tsurugai, A Antonov, V Bashkirov, P Danilov, BA Dolgoshein, D Gladkov, V Sosnovtsev, S Suchkov, RK Dementiev, PF Ermolov, YA Golubkov, II Katkov, LA Khein, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, BB Levchenko, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, NN Vlasov, SA Zotkin, C Bokel, J Engelen, S Grijpink, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, E Maddox, A Pellegrino, S Schagen, E Tassi, H Tiecke, N Tuning, JJ Velthuis, L Wiggers, E de Wolf, N Brümmer, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, J Gilmore, CM Ginsburg, CL Kim, TY Ling, S Boogert, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, J Ferrando, G Grzelak, T Matsushita, M Rigby, O Ruske, MR Sutton, R Walczak, R Brugnera, R Carlin, F Dal Corso, S Dusini, A Garfagnini, S Limentani, A Longhin, A Parenti, M Posocco, L Stanco, M Turcato, EA Heaphy, BY Oh, PRB Saull, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, C Cormack, JC Hart, NA McCubbin, C Heusch, IH Park, N Pavel, H Abramowicz, S Dagan, A Gabareen, S Kananov, A Kreisel, A Levy, T Abe, T Fusayasu, T Kohno, K Umemori, T Yamashita, R Hamatsu, T Hirose, M Inuzuka, S Kitamura, K Matsuzawa, T Nishimura, M Arneodo, N Cartiglia, R Cirio, M Costa, MI Ferrero, S Maselli, V Monaco, C Peroni, M Ruspa, R Sacchi, A Solano, A Staiano, R Galea, T Koop, GM Levman, JF Martin, A Mirea, A Sabetfakhri, JM Butterworth, C Gwenlan, R Hall-Wilton, TW Jones, JB Lane, MS Lightwood, JH Loizides, BJ West, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, B Smalska, J Sztuk, T Tymieniecka, A Ukleja, J Ukleja, JA Zakrzewski, AF Zarnecki, M Adamus, P Plucinski, Y Eisenberg, LK Gladilin, D Hochman, U Karshon, D Kçira, S Lammers, L Li, DD Reeder, AA Savin, WH Smith, A Deshpande, S Dhawan, VW Hughes, PB Straub, S Bhadra, CD Catterall, S Fourletov, S Menary, M Soares, J Standage

Measurements of inelastic J/ψ and ψ′ photoproduction at HERA

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 27:2 (2003) 173-188

Authors:

S Chekanov, D Krakauer, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, GC Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S De Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, O Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, M Wang, A Weber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, Y Ning, S Paganis, Z Ren, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bold, I Grabowska-Bold, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, M Przybycien, L Suszycki, D Szuba, J Szuba, A Kotasnski, W Slominski, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens, I Bloch, K Borras, V Chiochia, D Dannheim, M Derrick, G Drews, J Fourletova, A Fox-Murphy, U Fricke, A Geiser, F Goebel, P Göttlicher, O Gutsche, T Haas, W Hain, GF Hartner, S Hillert, U Kötz, H Kowalski, G Kramberger, H Labes, D Lelas, B Löhr, R Mankel, IA Melzer-Pellmann, M Moritz, D Notz, MC Petrucci, A Polini, A Raval, U Schneekloth, F Selonke, H Wessoleck, R Wichmann, G Wolf, C Youngman, W Zeuner, ALD Viani, A Meyer, S Schlenstedt, G Barbagli, E Gallo, C Genta, PG Pelfer, A Bamberger, A Benen, N Coppola, M Bell, PJ Bussey, AT Doyle, C Glasman, S Hanlon, SW Lee, A Lupi, GJ McCance, DH Saxon, IO Skillicorn, I Gialas, B Bodmann, T Carli, U Holm, K Klimek, N Krumnack, E Lohrmann, M Milite, H Salehi, S Stonjek, K Wick, A Ziegler, A Ziegler, C Collins-Tooth, C Foudas, R Gonçalo, KR Long, F Metlica, AD Tapper, P Cloth, D Filges, M Kuze, K Nagano, K Tokushuku, S Yamada, Y Yamazaki, AN Barakbaev, EG Boos, NS Pokrovskiy, BO Zhautykov, H Lim, D Son, F Barreiro, O González, L Labarga, J del Peso, I Redondo, E Tassi, J Terrón, M Vázquez, M Barbi, A Bertolin, F Corriveau, A Ochs, S Padhi, DG Stairs, M St-Laurent, T Tsurugai, A Antonov, P Danilov, BA Dolgoshein, D Gladkov, V Sosnovtsev, S Suchkov, RK Dementiev, PF Ermolov, YA Golubkov, II Katkov, LA Khein, IA Korzhavina, VA Kuzmin, BB Levchenko, OY Lukina, AS Proskuryakov, LM Shcheglova, NN Vlasov, SA Zotkin, C Bokel, J Engelen, S Grijpink, E Koffeman, P Kooijman, E Maddox, A Pellegrino, S Schagen, H Tiecke, N Tuning, JJ Velthuis, L Wiggers, E de Wolf, N Brümmer, B Bylsma, LS Durkin, TY Ling, S Boogert, AM Cooper-Sarkar, RCE Devenish, J Ferrando, G Grzelak, T Matsushita, M Rigby, O Ruske, MR Sutton, R Walczak, R Brugnera, R Carlin, F Dal Corso, S Dusini, A Garfagnini, S Limentani, A Longhin, A Parenti, M Posocco, L Stanco, M Turcato, EA Heaphy, BY Oh, PRB Saull, JJ Whitmore, Y Iga, G D'Agostini, G Marini, A Nigro, C Cormack, JC Hart, NA McCubbin, C Heusch, IH Park, N Pavel, H Abramowicz, A Gabareen, S Kananov, A Kreisel, A Levy, T Abe, T Fusayasu, S Kagawa, T Kohno, T Tawara, T Yamashita, R Hamatsu, T Hirose, M Inuzuka, S Kitamura, K Matsuzawa, T Nishimura, M Arneodo, MI Ferrero, V Monaco, M Ruspa, R Sacchi, A Solano, R Galea, T Koop, GM Levman, JF Martin, A Mirea, A Sabetfakhri, JM Butterworth, C Gwenlan, R Hall-Wilton, TW Jones, MS Lightwood, JH Loizides, BJ West, J Ciborowski, R Ciesielski, RJ Nowak, JM Pawlak, B Smalska, J Sztuk, T Tymieniecka, A Ukleja, J Ukleja, AF Zarnecki, M Adamus, P Plucinski, Y Eisenberg, LK Gladilin, D Hochman, U Karshon, D Kçira, S Lammers, L Li, DD Reeder, AA Savin, WH Smith, A Deshpande, S Dhawan, VW Hughes, PB Straub, S Bhadra, CD Catterall, S Fourletov, S Menary, M Soares, J Standage