Search for charged excited leptons in e+e- collisions at √s = 183-209 GeV

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作者
Abbiendi, G [1 ]
Ainsley, C
Åkesson, PF
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Amaral, P
Anagnostou, G
Anderson, KJ
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Bailey, I
Barberio, E
Barlow, RJ
Batley, RJ
Bechtle, P
Behnke, T
Bell, KW
Bell, PJ
Bella, G
Bellerive, A
Benelli, G
Bethke, S
Biebel, O
Bloodworth, IJ
Boeriu, O
Bock, P
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Buesser, K
Burckhart, HJ
Cammin, J
Campana, S
Carnegie, RK
Caron, B
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Cohen, I
Csilling, A
Cuffiani, M
Dado, S
Dallavalle, GM
Dallison, S
De Roeck, A
机构
[1] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[2] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[7] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[8] CERN, European Org Nucl Res, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[9] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[10] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[12] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[14] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[15] Tech Hsch Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[16] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[17] Univ Manchester, Schuster Lab, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[18] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[19] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[20] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[21] Rutherford Appleton Lab, CLRC, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[22] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[23] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[24] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[25] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[26] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[27] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[28] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Phys Expt, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[29] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
[30] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[31] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[32] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[33] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[34] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[35] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[36] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[37] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[38] Univ Debrecen, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary
[39] MPI Extraterr Phys, Munich, Germany
[40] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[41] Univ Instelling Antwerp, Dept Phys, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 日本学术振兴会; 以色列科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02343-2
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摘要
A search for charged excited leptons decaying into a lepton and a photon has been performed using approximately 680 pb(-1) of e(+)e(-) collision data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 183 and 209 GeV No evidence for their existence was found. Upper limits on the product of the cross-section and the branching fraction are inferred. Using results from the search for singly produced excited leptons, upper limits on the ratio of the excited lepton coupling constant to the compositeness scale are calculated. From pair production searches, 95% confidence level lower limits on the masses of excited electrons, muons and taus are determined to be 103.2 GeV (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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