A search for QCD-instanton-induced events in deep inelastic ep scattering has been performed with the ZEUS detector at the HERA collider, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 pb(-1). A kinematic range defined by cuts on the photon virtuality, Q(2) > 120 GeV(2), and on the Bjorken scaling variable, x > 10(-3), has been investigated. The QCD-instanton induced events were modelled by the Monte Carlo generator QCDINS. A background-independent, conservative 95% confidence level upper limit for the instanton cross section of 26 pb is obtained, to be compared with the theoretically expected value of 8.9 pb.
Search for QCD -instanton induced events in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA
BASILE, MAURIZIO;CIFARELLI, LUISA;CONTIN, ANDREA;PALMONARI, FEDERICO;SARTORELLI, GABRIELLA;ZICHICHI, ANTONINO;
2004
Abstract
A search for QCD-instanton-induced events in deep inelastic ep scattering has been performed with the ZEUS detector at the HERA collider, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 pb(-1). A kinematic range defined by cuts on the photon virtuality, Q(2) > 120 GeV(2), and on the Bjorken scaling variable, x > 10(-3), has been investigated. The QCD-instanton induced events were modelled by the Monte Carlo generator QCDINS. A background-independent, conservative 95% confidence level upper limit for the instanton cross section of 26 pb is obtained, to be compared with the theoretically expected value of 8.9 pb.File in questo prodotto:
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