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Search for QCD instanton-induced processes in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA: The H1 collaboration

  • C. Adloff
  • , V. Andreev
  • , B. Andrieu
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , A. Astvatsatourov
  • , A. Babaev
  • , J. Bähr
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , J. Becker
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , A. Beglarian
  • , O. Behnke
  • , C. Beier
  • , A. Belousov
  • , Ch Berger
  • , T. Berndt
  • , J. C. Bizot
  • , J. Böhme
  • V. Boudry, W. Braunschweig, V. Brisson, H. B. Bröker, D. P. Brown, W. Bruckner, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, A. Burrage, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, T. Carli, S. Caron, F. Cassol-Brunner, D. Clarke, C. Collard, J. G. Contreras, Y. R. Coppens, J. A. Coughlan, M. C. Cousinou, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, M. Davidsson, B. Delcourt, N. Delerue, R. Demirchyan, A. de Roeck, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, J. Dingfelder, P. Dixon, V. Dodonov, J. D. Dowell, A. Droutskoi, A. Dubak, C. Duprel, G. Eckerlin, D. Eckstein, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, E. Eisenhandler, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, M. Erdmann, W. Erdmann, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, S. Ferron, M. Fleischer, P. Fleischmann, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, G. Franke, G. Frising, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, J. Garvey, J. Gassner, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, C. Gerlich, S. Ghazaryan, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, C. Grab, V. Grabski, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, G. Grindhammer, T. Hadig, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, J. Haller, W. J. Haynes, B. Heinemann, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, S. Hengstmann, H. Henschel, R. Heremans, G. Herrera, I. Herynek, M. Hildebrandt, M. Hilgers, K. H. Hiller, J. Hladký, P. Höting, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, S. Hurling, M. Ibbotson, C. Işsever, M. Jacquet, M. Jaffre, L. Janauschek, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, C. Johnson, D. P. Johnson, M. A.S. Jones, H. Jung, D. Kant, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, O. Karschnick, F. Keil, N. Keller, J. Kennedy, I. R. Kenyon, S. Kermiche, C. Kiesling, P. Kjellberg, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Kluge, G. Knies, B. Koblitz, S. D. Kolya, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, S. K. Kotelnikov, R. Koutouev, A. Koutov, J. Kroseberg, K. Krüger, T. Kuhr, T. Kurča, D. Lamb, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, P. Laycock, E. Lebailly, A. Lebedev, B. Leißner, R. Lemrani, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, M. Lindstroem, B. List, E. Lobodzinska, B. Lobodzinski, A. Loginov, N. Loktionova, V. Lubimov, S. Lüders, D. Lüke, L. Lytkin, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, I. Malinovski, S. Mangano, R. Maraček, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, H. U. Martyn, J. Martyniak, S. J. Maxfield, D. Meer, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, P. O. Meyer, S. Mikocki, D. Milstead, S. Mohrdieck, M. N. Mondragon, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J. V. Morris, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, B. Naroska, J. Naumann, Th Naumann, G. Nellen, P. R. Newman, F. Niebergall, C. Niebuhr, O. Nix, G. Nowak, J. E. Olsson, D. Ozerov, V. Panassik, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, M. Peez, E. Perez, A. Petrukhin, J. P. Phillips, D. Pitzl, R. Pöschl, I. Potachnikova, B. Povh, G. Rädel, J. Rauschenberger, P. Reimer, B. Reisert, D. Reyna, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, S. Schätzel, J. Scheins, F. P. Schilling, P. Schleper, D. Schmidt, D. Schmidt, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, M. Schneider, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, T. Schörner, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, C. Schwanenberger, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, V. Shekelyan, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, H. Spitzer, R. Stamen, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, I. Strauch, U. Straumann, M. Swart, S. Tchetchelnitski, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, N. Tobien, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, J. E. Turney, E. Tzamariudaki, S. Udluft, A. Uraev, M. Urban, A. Usik, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, S. Vassiliev, Y. Vazdik, A. Vest, A. Vichnevski, K. Wacker, J. Wagner, R. Wallny, B. Waugh, G. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, N. Werner, M. Wessels, G. White, S. Wiesand, T. Wilksen, M. Winde, G. G. Winter, Ch Wissing, M. Wobisch, E. E. Woehrling, E. Wünsch, A. C. Wyatt, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, F. Zomer, M. Zur Nedden
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB
  • University of Antwerp
  • c/o DESY
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
  • University of Manchester
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • University of Heidelberg
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Universität Hamburg
  • University of Liverpool
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Dortmund
  • Dept. Fis. Ap. CINVESTAV
  • University of Birmingham
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • Lund University
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • ETH Zurich
  • Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
  • Charles University
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Lancaster University
  • CINVESTAV-IPN
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of P.J. Šafárik
  • University Roma Tre
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Signals of QCD instanton-induced processes are searched for in deep-inelástic scattering (DIS) at the electron-proton collider HERA in a kinematic region defined by the Bjorken-scaling variables x > 10-3, 0.1 < y < 0.6 and photon virtualities 10 ≲ Q2 < 100 GeV2. Several observables characterising hadronic final state properties of QCD instanton-induced events are exploited to identify a potentially instanton-enriched domain. While an excess of events with instanton-like topology is observed it cannot be claimed significant given the uncertainty of the standard DIS background simulation. Upper limits on the cross-section for instanton-induced processes of between 60 pb and 1000 pb are set dependent on the kinematic domain considered. The data do not exclude the cross-section predicted by instanton perturbation theory for small instanton sizes. At large instanton sizes a naive extrapolation of instanton perturbation theory yields a cross-section in the range of sensitivity of this study. Such a cross-section is not observed, in agreement with non-perturbative lattice simulations of the QCD vacuum.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)495-509
Nombre de pages15
journalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume25
Numéro de publication4
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 1 janv. 2002

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