Cargando…

Search for Unstable Heavy and Excited Leptons in $e^+ e^-$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 170-172 GeV

We have searched for unstable neutral and charged heavy leptons, N and L^+/-, and for excited states of neutral and charged leptons, nu*, e*, mu* and tau*, in e^+e^- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 170 and 172 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. No evidence for their existence was found. Fr...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ackerstaff, K., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Altekamp, N., Anderson, K.J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Bartoldus, R., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Bechtluft, J., Beeston, C., Behnke, T., Bell, A.N., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Biguzzi, A., Bird, S.D., Blobel, V., Bloodworth, I.J., Bloomer, J.E., Bobinski, M., Bock, P., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Bouwens, B.T., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Burgard, C., Burgin, R., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Chrisman, D., Clarke, P.E.L., Cohen, I., Conboy, J.E., Cooke, O.C., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallapiccola, C., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Davis, R., De Jong, S., del Pozo, L.A., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., do Couto e Silva, E., Doucet, M., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Eatough, D., Edwards, J.E.G., Estabrooks, P.G., Evans, H.G., Evans, M., Fabbri, F., Fanti, M., Faust, A.A., Fiedler, F., Fierro, M., Fischer, H.M., Fleck, I., Folman, R., Fong, D.G., Foucher, M., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gascon, J., Gascon-Shotkin, S.M., Geddes, N.I., Geich-Gimbel, C., Geralis, T., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Giacomelli, R., Gibson, V., Gibson, W.R., Gingrich, D.M., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Goodrick, M.J., Gorn, W., Grandi, C., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Hargrove, C.K., Hart, P.A., Hartmann, C., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herndon, M., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hillier, S.J., Hobson, P.R., Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Hutchcroft, D.E., Igo-Kemenes, P., Imrie, D.C., Ingram, M.R., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeffreys, P.W., Jeremie, H., Jimack, M., Joly, A., Jones, C.R., Jones, G., Jones, M., Jost, U., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Kayal, P.I., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kirk, J., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Koetke, D.S., Kokott, T.P., Kolrep, M., Komamiya, S., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Lahmann, R., Lai, W.P., Lanske, D., Lauber, J., Lautenschlager, S.R., Layter, J.G., Lazic, D., Lee, A.M., Lefebvre, E., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Markus, C., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., Mckigney, E.A., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Menke, S., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, J., Michelini, A., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mincer, A., Mir, R., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Morii, M., Muller, U., Mihara, S., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nellen, B., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Oh, A., Oldershaw, N.J., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Palinkas, J., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Pearce, M.J., Perez-Ochoa, R., Petzold, S., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poffenberger, P., Poli, B., Posthaus, A., Rees, D.L., Rigby, D., Robertson, S., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rooke, A., Ros, E., Rossi, A.M., Routenburg, P., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Ruppel, U., Rust, D.R., Rylko, R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sarkisian, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharf, F., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schenk, P., Schieck, J., Schleper, P., Schmitt, B., Schmitt, S., Schoning, A., Schroder, Matthias, Schultz-Coulon, H.C., Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Sittler, A., Skillman, A., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Springer, Robert Wayne, Sproston, M., Stephens, K., Steuerer, J., Stockhausen, B., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Szymanski, P., Tafirout, R., Talbot, S.D., Tanaka, S., Taras, P., Tarem, S., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomson, M.A., von Torne, E., Towers, S., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turcot, A.S., Turner-Watson, M.F., Utzat, P., Van Kooten, Rick J., Verzocchi, M., Vikas, P., Vokurka, E.H., Voss, H., Wackerle, F., Wagner, A., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wermes, N., White, J.S., Wilkens, B., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wolf, G., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Yekutieli, G., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1997
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01245797
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100520050061
http://cds.cern.ch/record/334555
Descripción
Sumario:We have searched for unstable neutral and charged heavy leptons, N and L^+/-, and for excited states of neutral and charged leptons, nu*, e*, mu* and tau*, in e^+e^- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 170 and 172 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. No evidence for their existence was found. From the analysis of charged-current decays of pair-produced unstable heavy leptons, and of charged-current and photonic decays of pair-produced excited leptons, lower limits on their masses are derived. From the analysis of charged-current and photonic decays of singly-produced excited leptons, upper limits on the ratio of the coupling to the compositeness scale, f/Lambda, are determined for masses up to the kinematic limit.