Search for excited electrons at HERA

C Adloff, Yves Coppens, John Dowell, Peter Faulkner, Yves Fleming, John Garvey, Carrie Johnson, Ian Kenyon, David Lamb, Paul Newman, Syed Rizvi, Paul Thompson, Ethan-Etienne Woehrling

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)35
Number of pages1
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume548
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Nov 2002

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