Related papers: Zooming-in on Instantons at HERA
In view of the new (preliminary) search results for instanton-induced events at HERA from the H1 collaboration, we present a brief discussion of (controllable) theoretical uncertainties, both in the event topology and the calculated rate.
After a brief introduction into the phenomenology of instantons, results from instanton perturbation theory applied to deep-inelastic electron proton scattering are summarized. Based on event signatures derived from Monte Carlo studies,…
The present status of our ongoing systematic study of the discovery potential of QCD-instanton induced events in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA is briefly reviewed. We emphasize our recent progress in predicting the cross-sections of…
We review our ongoing theoretical and phenomenological study of the discovery potential for instanton-induced events in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at HERA. Constraints from recent lattice simulations will be exploited and translated…
A first part of this review is devoted to a summary of our extensive studies of the discovery potential for instanton(I)-induced, deep-inelastic processes at HERA. Included are some key issues about I-perturbation theory, an exploitation of…
After summarizing the results of QCD-instanton-perturbation theory for the calculation of instanton-induced effects in deep inelastic electron proton scattering, we discuss search strategies for instanton-induced effects that have been…
In a first part, I review our detailed investigation of the prospects to discover deep-inelastic processes induced by small QCD-instantons at HERA. This includes the essence of our calculations based on instanton-perturbation theory,…
We review our on-going theoretical and phenomenological investigation of the prospects to discover QCD-instantons in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA.
We present a first status report on a broad and systematic study of possible manifestations of QCD-instantons at HERA. Considerable motivation comes from the close analogy between instanton-induced $B+L$ violation in electroweak processes…
A ``fiducial'' kinematical region for our calculations of instanton (I)-induced processes at HERA within I-perturbation theory is extracted from recent lattice simulations of QCD. Moreover, we present the finalized I-induced cross-sections…
A search for QCD instanton (I) induced events in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at HERA is presented in the kinematic range of low x and low Q^2. After cutting into three characteristic variables for I-induced events yielding a maximum…
A number of internal inconsistencies, misleading conclusions and lack of completeness in the analyses of the small $x$ deep inelastic data in recent papers of HERA physicists, particularly in a very recent one by the H1 collaboration are…
Factorial, cumulant and $H_q$-moments in dependence on their rank q for the instanton-induced deep inelastic scattering (DIS) in the frameworks of QCD are calculated and analysed. The obtained correlation moments behaviour has specific…
We review the present status of our ongoing systematic study of the discovery potential of QCD-instanton induced events in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA.
Phenomenological aspects of chirality violating processes induced by QCD instantons in deep inelastic scattering are discussed. First instanton searches and the prospects for their experimental discovery at HERA are presented.
Recent data obtained in ep collisions at HERA by the H1 collaboration are presented: searches for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model, measurement of the inclusive neutral and charged current cross sections and of the proton structure…
The H1 and ZEUS collaborations have used the HERA I data to search for physics beyond the SM and to test electroweak physics in electron-proton collisions. The new period of data taking (HERA II) has started and first HERA II analyses…
Events with isolated leptons and missing transverse momentum are searched for in electron- or positron-proton collisions at HERA by the H1 and ZEUS experiments. Such events may be explained within the Standard Model by W boson production,…
A light stop, with an R-parity-violating coupling $\lambda'_{131}$, has been suggested as an explanation of the excess in high-$Q^2$ neutral current events observed at the HERA collider. We show that in this scheme a corresponding excess in…
Speculations on mechanisms which might be responsible for events with an isolated high p_T lepton, a hadron jet and missing energy, as observed in the H1 experiment at HERA, are discussed.