1. Search for new physics in e±q contact interactions at HERA
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V. Jemanov, C. Niebuhr, Laurent Schoeffel, Murrough Landon, Paul Richard Newman, Grzegorz Nowak, N. Loktionova, J. Gassner, A. Hovhannisyan, J.G. Contreras, I. Tsurin, M. C. Cousinou, J.E. Turney, P. Baranov, Peter Schleper, S. Egli, T. J. Sloan, P.J.W. Faulkner, A.S. Belousov, Sergey Rusakov, P. Truöl, R. Koutouev, A. Petrukhin, S. Mangano, D. Lüke, C. Wissing, J. Zalesak, Y. Soloviev, E. Wünsch, P. Höting, L. Janauschek, I. Potachnikova, J. Martyniak, S. Lüders, G. Buschhorn, D. Ozerov, V. Lubimov, Dusan Bruncko, B. Naroska, K. H. Hiller, T. Kluge, T. Greenshaw, Rainer Wallny, A. Astvatsatourov, Paul Laycock, E. Malinovski, F. P. Schilling, Doris Eckstein, P. Van Mechelen, R. C. W. Henderson, E. Eisenhandler, R. Pöschl, J. Cvach, G. Grindhammer, G. D. Patel, D.P. Johnson, J. Ferencei, J. Naumann, J. Marks, J. Formánek, J. Dingfelder, N. Werner, D. Clarke, B. Waugh, Claus Kleinwort, S. Baumgartner, N. Malden, Wolfram Erdmann, B. List, M. zur Nedden, Pierre Marage, John A Coughlan, I. Sheviakov, J. Rauschenberger, G. Weber, U. Straumann, D. Kant, David Schmidt, K. Sedlák, O. Karschnick, K. Gabathuler, K. Rybicki, D. Wegener, W.J. Haynes, S. Schmidt, J. V. Morris, C. Risler, K. Daum, S. Mohrdieck, D. P. C. Sankey, A. Specka, Caroline Collard, Christoph Grab, J. Kennedy, V. Brisson, S. Vassiliev, J. Wagner, A. D.R. Vargas Trevino, C. Adloff, F. Keil, H. Meyer, R. Demirchyan, M.N. Mondragon, A. Bunyatyan, Leif J. Jönsson, V. Efremenko, B. Koblitz, Markus Wobisch, Xavier Janssen, J. Böhme, Stephen Maxfield, L. N. Shtarkov, F. Tomasz, V. Spaskov, R. Maraček, R. Marshall, Ewelina Lobodzinska, A. Beglarian, Pavel Murin, H. Grässler, K. Wacker, J. Stiewe, O. Behnke, S. Mikocki, A. Uraev, G. Knies, J-P. Meyer, Martin Erdmann, J. Žáček, M. Ibbotson, A. Knutsson, T. Schörner-Sadenius, T. Laštovička, R. Felst, Matthew Jones, B. Stella, F. Niebergall, Stefan Schmitt, Andrew Mehta, E. Barrelet, P. Dixon, Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon, Glenn J. White, M. Hildebrandt, A. Vichnevski, A. Lebedev, F. Sefkow, V. Chekelian, V. Korbel, P. Kjellberg, F. Moreau, J. Hladký, J. D. Dowell, B. Lobodzinski, A. Vest, A. Rostovtsev, N. Gogitidze, V. Nagovizin, A. Droutskoi, D. Haidt, E. Perez, S. Caron, V. Panassik, E. A. De Wolf, Ch. Berger, Karlheinz Meier, R. Roosen, S. Hengstmann, Judith Katzy, S. Hurling, Eram Rizvi, G. Heinzelmann, R. Eichler, R. Gerhards, M. Winde, S. D. Kolya, V. Dodonov, L. Lytkin, E.-E. Woehrling, C. Werner, Laurent Favart, T. Anthonis, Cristinel Diaconu, Ç. İşsever, T. Wilksen, P. E. Reimer, C. Johnson, F. Zomer, C. Duprel, I. Herynek, Daniel Pitzl, V. Andreev, L. Bystritskaya, R. Lemrani, P. Kostka, J. Turnau, T. Kuhr, B. Reisert, J. Bähr, S. Levonian, I. R. Kenyon, G. G. Winter, D. Traynor, H. U. Martyn, O. Nix, F. Cassol-Brunner, S. K. Kotelnikov, L. Hajduk, D. South, M. Wessels, M. Urban, H. Spitzer, D.P. Brown, J. Haller, Yves Sirois, M. Ellerbrock, G. Thompson, B. Andrieu, S. Ghazaryan, M. Davidsson, Bradley Cox, G. Franke, Katja Krüger, L. Goerlich, S. Michine, Roland Horisberger, A. Valkárová, H. Henschel, J.C. Bizot, N. Delerue, K. Müller, Christian Schwanenberger, Anton Babaev, I. Foresti, G. Cozzika, F. Eisele, J.P. Phillips, Stefan Valkar, H.-B. Bröker, Martin Karlsson, Hannes Jung, D. Lamb, Alexander Zhokin, J. Becker, C. Vallée, R. Heremans, M. Kapichine, M. Nozicka, A. Koutov, B. Delcourt, S. Schätzel, N. Keller, V. Lendermann, V. Schröder, Eckhard Elsen, Wolfgang Lange, J. Gayler, R. Stamen, Peter Robmann, J. Scheins, W.D. Dau, J. B. Dainton, B. Leißner, A. Loginov, M. Jacquet, Zhen Zhang, T. Hadig, G. Herrera, V. Grabski, D. Hoffmann, Andreas Meyer, D. Meer, A. Usik, G. Frising, Y. R. Coppens, Max Klein, I. Strauch, Philipp Fleischmann, Beate Heinemann, David Milstead, C. Pascaud, P. A. Smirnov, Guenter Eckerlin, S. Ferron, S. Wiesand, Th. Naumann, M. Jaffre, J. E. Olsson, W. Bartel, M. Hilgers, J. Garvey, F. W. Büsser, W. Braunschweig, A. M. Fomenko, E. Lebailly, C. Gerlich, T. Berndt, A. Burrage, E. Gabathuler, J. Kroseberg, Vincent Boudry, Y. H. Fleming, A. N. Morozov, Georgios Tsipolitis, M. Fleischer, A. Schöning, Bogdan Povh, A. Dubak, Y. Vazdik, P.D. Thompson, S. Tchetchelnitski, M. Schneider, M. Peez, M. Beckingham, A. Fedotov, Günter Flügge, C. Kiesling, A.C. Wyatt, A. De Roeck, E. Tzamariudaki, A. J. Campbell, and H1 Collaboration
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Quark ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Neutral current ,Physics beyond the Standard Model ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Momentum transfer ,FOS: Physical sciences ,HERA ,Supersymmetry ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Standard Model ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Large extra dimension ,High Energy Physics::Experiment - Abstract
Deep-inelastic e^\pm p scattering at high squared momentum transfer Q^2 up to 30000 GeV^2 is used to search for eq contact interactions associated to scales far beyond the HERA centre of mass energy. The neutral current cross section measurements d sigma / d Q^2, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 16.4 pb^-1 of e^- p data and 100.8 pb^-1 of e^+ p data, are well described by the Standard Model and are analysed to set constraints on new phenomena. For conventional contact interactions lower limits are set on compositeness scales Lambda ranging between 1.6 - 5.5 TeV. Couplings and masses of leptoquarks and squarks in R-parity violating supersymmetry are constrained to M / lambda > 0.3 - 1.4 TeV. A search for low scale quantum gravity effects in models with large extra dimensions provides limits on the effective Planck scale of M_S > 0.8 TeV. A form factor analysis yields a bound on the radius of light quarks of R_q < 1.0 x 10^-18 m., 15 pages, 5 figures and 5 tables
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- 2003
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