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A Search for Excited Fermions at HERA

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

A search for excited fermions f^* of the first generation in e^+p scattering at the collider HERA is presented using H1 data with an integrated luminosity of 37 pb^(-1). All electroweak decays of excited fermions, f^* -> f gamma, f W, f Z are considered and all possible final states resulting from the Z or W hadronic decays or decays into leptons of the first two generations are taken into account. No evidence for f^* production is found. Mass dependent exclusion limits on cross-sections and on the ratio of coupling constants to the compositeness scale are derived.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0007035,
  title  = {A Search for Excited Fermions at HERA},
  author = {H1 Collaboration and C. Adloff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0007035},
  year   = {2008}
}

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27 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables