Search for heavy neutral and charged leptons in e+e- annihilation at LEP

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作者
Achard, P [1 ]
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Baarmand, M
Bagnaia, P
Bajo, A
Baksay, G
Baksay, L
Baldew, SV
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Batalova, N
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Bellucci, L
Berbeco, R
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
Braccini, S
Branson, JG
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[9] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[16] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[17] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[19] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[21] Univ Debrecen, ATOMKI, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[22] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[24] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[26] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[27] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[28] Univ Lyon 1, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[29] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[31] ITEP, Moscow, Russia
[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[33] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[34] Univ Cyprus, Dept Phys, Nicosia, Cyprus
[35] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[36] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[37] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[38] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[39] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[40] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[41] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[43] Univ Potenza, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[44] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[45] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01005-X
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0704 ;
摘要
A search for exotic unstable neutral and charged heavy leptons as well as for stable charged heavy leptons; is performed with the L3 detector at LEP Sequential, vector and mirror natures of heavy leptons are considered. No evidence for their existence is found and lower limits on their masses are set. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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