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Multi-electron production at high transverse momenta in ep collisions at HERA

  • A. Aktas
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , J. Bähr
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baumgartner
  • , J. Becker
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • , A. Belousov
  • , Ch Berger
  • , T. Berndt
  • , J. C. Bizot
  • , J. Böhme
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  • c/o DESY
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB
  • University of Antwerp
  • University Roma Tre
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • ETH Zurich
  • Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Heidelberg
  • University of Dortmund
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Dept. Fis. Ap. CINVESTAV
  • University of Birmingham
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
  • Charles University
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lancaster University
  • CINVESTAV-IPN
  • Lund University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of P.J. Šafárik
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

Multi-electron production is studied at high electron transverse momentum in positron- and electron-proton collisions using the H1 detector at HERA. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 115 pb-1. Di-electron and tri-electron event yields are measured. Cross sections are derived in a restricted phase space region dominated by photon-photon collisions. In general good agreement is found with the Standard Model predictions. However, for electron pair invariant masses above 100 GeV, three di-electron events and three tri-electron events are observed, compared to Standard Model expectations of 0.30 ± 0.04 and 0.23 ± 0.04, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)17-29
Number of pages13
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume31
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2003

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