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Recent results on searches for physics beyond the Standard Model obtained by the H1 and ZEUS experiments are reported here. After a brief introduction to the HERA collider, indirect searches for contact interactions and extra-dimensions are…
We reexamine the contact interaction hypothesis for excess high-$Q^2$ events seen at HERA in $e^+ p \to e^+ X$ scattering. We consider the most general structure of contact interactions insisting on $SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$…
In a search for signatures of physics processes beyond the Standard Model, various eeqq vector contact interaction hypotheses have been tested in the ZEUS experiment. No significant evidence of a contact interaction signal has been found.…
Signals of physics beyond the Standard Model at HERA have been searched for by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations. Results are reported about searches of contact interaction effects, leptoquarks, R-parity violating squarks, excited fermions and…
The H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA have searched for signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model using high Q^2 neutral current deep inelastic electron-proton and positron-proton scattering events. No significant deviations from…
HERA is the only high energy electron-proton collider in the world today and hence has unique opportunities both to probe the structure of the proton and to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Results are presented for…
Theoretical interpretations of the high-Q^2 events recently observed in deep-inelastic positron-proton scattering at HERA are reviewed. We discuss leptoquarks, squarks with R-parity violating couplings, and contact interactions. Bounds from…
I discuss the production of leptoquarks in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron. Evaluated on the basis of a recent next-to-leading order calculation, the combined D0 and CDF leptoquark searches lead to a parameter-free lower mass…
A previously proposed unified field theory of electro-strong interactions requires two scales of length within hadrons, $\sim10^{-15}m$ and $\sim10^{-18}m$ respectively, and the onset of new phenomena at the shorter scale. Studies at the…
We consider the possibility of experimental observation of flavor-diagonal and helicity conserving contact terms in the four fermion reactions e^+ e^- -> e^+ e^- \mu^+ \mu^- and e^- q -> e^- \mu^+ \mu^- q at LEP2 and HERA.
Preliminary results of measurements of fermion-pair production at LEP2 are used to derive limits on new physics phenomena. Combinations of the cross sections and asymmetrie of the 4 LEP collaborations are interpreted in terms four-fermion…
Fermion compositeness, and other types of new physics that can be described by the exchange of very massive particles, can manifest themselves as the result of an effective four-fermion contact interaction. In the case of the processes…
A search for lepton-flavor-violating interactions $e p \to \mu X $ and $e p\to \tau X $ has been performed with the ZEUS detector using the entire HERA I data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 130 pb^{-1}. The data were…
Fermion compositness, and other new physics which can be described by an exchange of very massive particles ($Z^\prime$ boson, leptoquarks, sparticles with R-parity violating couplings), can be manifest itself as the presence of a strong…
Interference effects in effective field theory (EFT) analyses can significantly distort sensitivity expectations, leaving subtle yet distinct signatures in the reconstruction of final states crucial for limit setting around Standard Model…
Selected recent data from collider experiments pertaining to the understanding of QCD at low Bjorken-x are reviewed. The status of QCD and Regge factorisation in hard diffractive interactions is discussed in terms of data from HERA and the…
I discuss new experimental results reported at this conference that bear directly on three previously reported anomalies: the excess of high Q^2 events at HERA; the excess of W + 1 jet events, relative to W's without jets, in D0 data; and…
The H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA have searched for signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model with high Q^2 neutral current deep inelastic electron-proton and positron-proton scattering events. No significant deviations from…
Leptoquark searches are considered for future experiments at HERA, Tevatron, LHC, TESLA and THERA. Expected exclusion limits from direct leptoquark searches (leptoquark pair production and single leptoquark production) are compared with…
The most severe constraints on quark-lepton four-fermion contact interactions come from the agreement of atomic parity violation measurements with the Standard Model. In this letter I note that for contact interactions which arise in…