Search for excited electrons at HERA

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Adloff, C [1 ]
Andreev, V
Andrieu, B
Anthonis, T
Astvatsatourov, A
Babaev, A
Bähr, J
Baranov, P
Barrelet, E
Bartel, W
Baumgartner, S
Becker, J
Beckingham, M
Beglarian, A
Behnke, O
Belousov, A
Berger, C
Berndt, T
Bizot, JC
Böhme, J
Boudry, V
Braunschweig, W
Brisson, V
Bröker, HB
Brown, DP
Bruncko, D
Büsser, FW
Bunyatyan, A
Burrage, A
Buschhorn, G
Bystritskaya, L
Campbell, AJ
Caron, S
Cassol-Brunner, F
Clarke, D
Collard, C
Contreras, JG
Coppens, YR
Coughlan, JA
Cousinou, MC
Cox, BE
Cozzika, G
Cvach, J
Dainton, JB
Dau, WD
Daum, K
Davidsson, M
Delcourt, B
Delerue, N
Demirchyan, R
机构
[1] Berg Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Space Res, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[4] ULB, VUB, Inter Univ Inst High Energies, Brussels, Belgium
[5] Univ Antwerp, UIA, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
[6] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[7] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[8] Univ Dortmund, Inst Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[9] Dubna Joint Nucl Res Inst, Dubna 141980, Russia
[10] CEA, CE Saclay, DSM, DAPNIA, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[11] DESY, D-2000 Hamburg, Germany
[12] Univ Hamburg, Inst Phys Expt, Hamburg, Germany
[13] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
[15] Heidelberg Univ, Kirchhoff Inst Phys, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
[16] Univ Kiel, Inst Expt & Angew Phys, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
[17] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Phys, Kosice 04353, Slovakia
[18] Univ Lancaster, Sch Phys & Chem, Lancaster LA1 4YW, England
[19] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[20] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[21] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
[22] Univ Manchester, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[23] Univ Mediterranee, CNRS, CPPM, IN2P3, Marseille, France
[24] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[25] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
[26] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[27] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[28] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL, Orsay, France
[29] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, LPNHE, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[30] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris, France
[31] Univ Paris 08, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris, France
[32] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[33] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, CR-11636 Prague 1, Czech Republic
[34] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Fis, Rome, Italy
[35] INFN Roma 3, Rome, Italy
[36] Paul Scherrer Inst, Villigen, Switzerland
[37] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[38] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[39] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Teilchenphys, Zurich, Switzerland
[40] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
[41] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15773 Athens, Greece
[42] Berg Univ Wuppertal, Rechenzentrum, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany
[43] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany
[44] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis Aplicada, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
[45] Safarik Univ, Kosice, Slovakia
[46] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[47] CINVESTAV, Dept Fis, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
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10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02764-8
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摘要
A search for excited electron (e*) production is described in which the electroweak decays e* --> egamma, e* --> eZ and e* ---> nuW are considered. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 120 pb(-1) taken in e(+/-)p collisions from 1994 to 2000 with the H1 detector at HERA at centre-of-mass energies of 300 and 318 GeV. No evidence for a signal is found. Mass dependent exclusion limits are derived for the ratio of the couplings to the compositeness scale, f/A. These limits extend the excluded region to higher masses than has been possible in previous direct searches for excited electrons. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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