Search for Contact Interactions in e±pe^{\pm}p Collisions at HERA

Collaboration
Jul, 2011

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A search for physics beyond the Standard Model in neutral current deep inelastic scattering at high negative four-momentum transfer squared Q2 is performed in e±p collisions at HERA. The differential cross section dσ/dQ2 , measured using the full H1 data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 446 pb−1 , is compared to the Standard Model prediction. No significant deviation is observed. Limits on various models predicting new phenomena at high Q2 are derived. For general four-fermion eeqq contact interaction models, lower limits on the compositeness scale Λ are set in the range 3.6 TeV to 7.2 TeV. Leptoquarks with masses MLQ and couplings λ are constrained to MLQ/λ>0.41–1.86 TeV and limits on squarks in R -parity violating supersymmetric models are derived. A lower limit on the gravitational scale in 4+n dimensions of MS>0.9 TeV is established for low-scale quantum gravity effects in models with large extra dimensions. For the light quark radius an upper bound of Rq<0.65⋅10−18 m is determined.
Note:
  • 20 pages, 6 figures and 5 tables
  • positron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • new physics: search for
  • four-fermion interaction
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • neutral current
  • R parity: violation
  • differential cross section: measured
  • momentum transfer dependence
  • space-time: higher-dimensional
  • leptoquark: mass: lower limit