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Observation of events at very high Q2 in ep collisions at HERA

  • C. Adloff
  • , S. Aid
  • , M. Anderson
  • , V. Andreev
  • , B. Andrieu
  • , V. Arkadov
  • , C. Arndt
  • , I. Ayyaz
  • , A. Babaev
  • , J. Bähr
  • , J. Bán
  • , Y. Ban
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , R. Barschke
  • , W. Bartel
  • , U. Bassler
  • , H. P. Beck
  • , M. Beck
  • , H. J. Behrend
  • A. Belousov, Ch Berger, G. Bernardi, G. Bertrand-Coremans, R. Beyer, P. Biddulph, P. Bispham, J. C. Bizot, K. Borras, F. Botterweck, V. Boudry, S. Bourov, A. Braemer, W. Braunschweig, V. Brisson, W. Brückner, P. Bruel, D. Bruncko, C. Brune, R. Buchholz, L. Büngener, J. Bürger, F. W. Büsser, A. Buniatian, S. Burke, G. Buschhorn, D. Calvet, A. J. Campbell, T. Carli, M. Charlet, D. Clarke, B. Clerbaux, S. Cocks, J. G. Contreras, C. Cormack, J. A. Coughlan, A. Courau, M. C. Cousinou, B. D. Cox, G. Cozzika, L. Criegee, D. G. Cussans, J. Cvach, S. Dagoret, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, M. David, C. L. Davis, A. De Roeck, E. A. De Wolf, B. Delcourt, M. Dirkmann, P. Dixon, W. Dlugosz, C. Dollfus, K. T. Donovan, J. D. Dowell, H. B. Dreis, A. Droutskoi, O. Dünger, J. Ebert, T. R. Ebert, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, E. Eisenhandler, E. Eisen, M. Erdmann, A. B. Fahr, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Feltesse, J. Ferencei, F. Ferrarotto, K. Flamm, M. Fleischer, M. Flieser, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, J. Formánek, J. M. Foster, G. Franke, E. Fretwurst, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, F. Gaede, J. Garvey, J. Gayler, M. Gebauer, H. Genzel, R. Gerhards, A. Glazov, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, M. Goldberg, D. Goldner, K. Golec-Biernat, B. Gonzalez-Pineiro, I. Gorelov, C. Grab, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, R. K. Griffiths, G. Grindhammer, A. Gruber, C. Gruber, T. Hadig, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, T. Haller, M. Hampel, W. J. Haynes, B. Heinemann, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, I. Herynek, M. F. Hess, K. Hewitt, K. H. Hiller, C. D. Hilton, J. Hladký, M. Höppner, D. Hoffmann, T. Holtom, R. Horisberger, V. L. Hudgson, M. Hütte, M. Ibbotson, C. Issever, H. Itterbeck, A. Jacholkowska, C. Jacobsson, M. Jacquet, M. Jaffre, J. Janoth, D. M. Jansen, T. Jansen, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, H. Jung, P. I.P. Kalmus, M. Kander, D. Kant, R. Kaschowitz, U. Kathage, J. Katzy, H. H. Kaufmann, O. Kaufmann, M. Kausch, S. Kazarian, I. R. Kenyon, S. Kermiche, C. Keuker, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, G. Knies, T. Köhler, J. H. Köhne, H. Kolanoski, S. D. Kolya, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, S. K. Kotelnikov, T. Krämerkämper, M. W. Krasny, H. Krehbiel, D. Krücker, A. Küpper, H. Küster, M. Kuhlen, T. Kurča, J. Kurzhöfer, B. Laforge, M. P.J. Landen, W. Lange, U. Langenegger, A. Lebedev, F. Lehner, V. Lemaitre, S. Levonian, G. Lindström, M. Lindstroem, F. Linsel, J. Lipinski, B. List, G. Lobo, G. C. Lopez, V. Lubimov, D. Lüke, L. Lytkin, N. Magnussen, H. Mahlke-Krüger, E. Malinovski, R. Maraček, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, J. Martens, G. Martin, R. Martin, H. U. Martyn, J. Martyniak, T. Mavroidis, S. J. Maxfield, S. J. McMahon, A. Mehta, K. Meier, P. Merkel, F. Metlica, A. Meyer, A. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, P. O. Meyer, A. Migliori, S. Mikocki, D. Milstead, J. Moeck, F. Moreau, J. V. Morris, E. Mroczko, D. Müller, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, R. Nahnhauer, B. Naroska, Th Naumann, I. Négri, P. R. Newman, D. Newton, H. K. Nguyen, T. C. Nicholls, F. Niebergall, C. Niebuhr, Ch Niedzballa, H. Niggli, G. Nowak, T. Nunnemann, M. Nyberg-Werther, H. Oberlack, J. E. Olsson, D. Ozerov, P. Palmen, E. Panaro, A. Panitch, C. Pascaud, S. Passaggio, G. D. Patel, H. Pawletta, E. Peppel, E. Perez, J. P. Phillips, A. Pieuchot, D. Pitzl, R. Pöschl, G. Pope, B. Povh, S. Prell, K. Rabbertz, P. Reimer, H. Rick, S. Riess, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, R. Roosen, K. Rosenbauer, A. Rostovtsev, F. Rouse, C. Royon, K. Rüter, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, P. Schacht, S. Schiek, S. Schleif, P. Schleper, W. Von Schlippe, D. Schmidt, G. Schmidt, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, V. Schröder, E. Schuhmann, B. Schwab, F. Sefkow, A. Semenov, V. Shekelyan, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, G. Siegmon, U. Siewert, Y. Sirois, I. O. Skillicorn, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, M. Smith, V. Solochenko, Y. Soloviev, A. Specka, J. Spiekermann, S. Spielman, H. Spitzer, F. Squinabol, P. Steffen, R. Steinberg, J. Steinhart, B. Stella, A. Stellberger, J. Stier, J. Stiewe, U. Stößlein, K. Stolze, U. Straumann, W. Struczinski, J. P. Sutton, S. Tapprogge, M. Taševský, V. Tchernyshov, S. Tchetchelnitski, J. Theissen, C. Thiebaux, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, N. Tobien, R. Todenhagen, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, P. Uelkes, A. Usik, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. Van Esch, P. Van Mechelen, D. Vandenplas, Y. Vazdik, P. Verrecchia, G. Villet, K. Wacker, A. Wagener, M. Wagener, R. Wallny, B. Waugh, G. Weber, M. Weber, D. Wegener, A. Wegner, T. Wengler, M. Werner, L. R. West, S. Wiesand, T. Wilksen, S. Willard, M. Winde, G. G. Winter, C. Wittek, M. Wobisch, H. Wollatz, E. Wünsch, J. Žáček, D. Zarbock, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, P. Zini, F. Zomer, J. Zsembery, K. Zuber, M. ZurNedden
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • Universität Hamburg
  • University of Manchester
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • c/o DESY
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • University of Zurich
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB
  • University of Antwerp
  • University of Dortmund
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • University of Heidelberg
  • Lancaster University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • of Sciences
  • Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • University of California, Davis
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • University of Birmingham
  • ETH Zurich
  • University Roma Tre
  • Charles University
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Lund University
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

Measurements of ep scattering with squared 4-momentum transfer Q2 up to 35000 GeV2 are compared with the expectation of the standard deep-inelastic model of lepton-nucleon scattering (DIS). For Q2 > 15000 GeV2, Nobs = 12 neutral current candidate events are observed where the expectation is NDIS = 4.71 ± 0.76 events. In the same Q2 range, Nobs = 4 charged current candidates are observed where the expectation is NDIS = 1.77 ± 0.87 events. The probability ℘(N ≥ Nobs) that the DIS model signal N fluctuates to N ≥ Nobs in a random set of experiments is 6 × 10-3 for neutral current and 0.14 for charged current. The difference in the observed and expected number of Neutral Current events is mostly due to events at large masses M = √xs in which the positron is backscattered at large y = Q2/M2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)191-205
Number of pages15
JournalZeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields
Volume74
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1997

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