Multi-photon events with large missing energy in e+e- collisions at √s=192-209 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
Barillari, T
Barlow, RJ
Batley, RJ
Bechtle, P
Behnke, T
Bell, KW
Bell, PJ
Bella, G
Bellerive, A
Benelli, G
Bethke, S
Biebel, O
Boeriu, O
Bock, P
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Buesser, K
Burckhart, HJ
Campana, S
Carnegie, RK
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Ciocca, C
Csilling, A
Cuffiani, M
Dado, S
De Roeck, A
De Wolf, EA
Desch, K
Dienes, B
Donkers, M
Dubbert, J
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Univ Cambridge, 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 & Westfield Coll, 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, Nucl Phys Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[20] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[21] Rutherford Appleton Lab, CCLRC, 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, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[25] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle 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 Expt Phys, 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, H-4012 Debrecen, Hungary
[39] MPI Extraterr Phys, Munich, Germany
[40] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[41] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
[42] Univ Liverpool, Dept Expt Phys, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
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10.1016/j.physletb.2004.09.059
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摘要
Events with a final state consisting of two or more photons and large missing transverse energy have been observed in e(+)e(-) collisions at centre-of-mass energies in the range 192-209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Cross-section measurements are performed within the kinematic acceptance of the selection and compared with the expectations from the Standard Model process e(+)e(-) --> v (v) over bar gammagamma(gamma). No evidence for new physics contributions to this final state is observed. Upper limits on or (e(+)e(-) --> XX) (.) BR2 (X --> Ygamma) are derived for the case of stable and invisible Y. In the case of massive Y the combined limits obtained from all the data range from 10 to 60 fb, while for the special case of massless Y the range is 20 to 40 fb. The limits apply to pair production of excited neutrinos (X = v*, Y = v), to neutralino production (X = (x) over bar (0)(2), Y = (x) over bar (0)(1)) and to 2 1 supersymmetric models in which X = (x) over bar (0)(1) and Y = (G) over bar is a light gravitino. (C) 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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