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Multi-lepton production at high transverse momenta in ep collisions at HERA
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posted on 2008-10-16, 00:00 authored by F D Aaron, C Alexa, V Andreev, B Antunovic, S Aplin, A Asmone, A Astvatsatourov, A Bacchetta, S Backovic, A Baghdasaryan, P Baranov, E Barrelet, W Bartel, M Beckingham, K Begzsuren, O Behnke, A Belousov, N Berger, J C Bizot, Gang LiGang Li, H1 CollaborationProcesses leading to a final state with at least two high transverse momentum leptons (electrons or muons) are studied using the full e ± p data sample collected by the H1 experiment at HERA. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 463 pb -1. Di-lepton and tri-lepton event classes are investigated. Cross sections of the production of e + e - and μ + μ - pairs are derived in a restricted phase space dominated by photon-photon collisions. In general, good agreement is found with Standard Model predictions. Events are observed with a total scalar sum of lepton transverse momenta above 100 GeV where the Standard Model expectation is low. In this region, combining di-lepton and tri-lepton classes, five events are observed in e + p collisions, compared to a Standard Model expectation of 0.96 ± 0.12, while no such event is observed in e - p data for 0.64 ± 0.09 expected. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Physics letters, section bVolume
668Issue
4Pagination
268 - 276Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0370-2693Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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