Title
Determination of the e+e- → γγ(γ) cross-section at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 189 GeV to 202 GeV
Date Issued
12 October 2000
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abreu P.
Adam W.
Adye T.
Adzic P.
Albrecht Z.
Alderweireld T.
Alekseev G.D.
Alemany R.
Allmendinger T.
Allport P.P.
Almehed S.
Amaldi U.
Amapane N.
Amato S.
Anassontzis E.G.
Andersson P.
Andreazza A.
Andringa S.
Antilogus P.
Apel W.D.
Arnoud Y.
Åsman B.
Augustin J.E.
Augustinus A.
Baillon P.
Ballestrero A.
Bambade P.
Barao F.
Barbiellini G.
Barbier R.
Bardin D.Y.
Barker G.
Baroncelli A.
Battaglia M.
Baubillier M.
Becks K.H.
Begalli M.
Behrmann A.
Beilliere P.
Belokopytov Y.
Belous K.
Benekos N.C.
Benvenuti A.C.
Berat C.
Berggren M.
Berntzon L.
Bertrand D.
Besancon M.
Bilenky M.S.
Bizouard M.A.
Bloch D.
Blom H.M.
Bonesini M.
Boonekamp M.
Booth P.S.L.
Borisov G.
Bosio C.
Botner O.
Boudinov E.
Bouquet B.
Bourdarios C.
Bowcock T.J.V.
Boyko I.
Bozovic I.
Bozzo M.
Bracko M.
Branchini P.
Brenner R.A.
Bruckman P.
Brunet J.M.
Bugge L.
Buran T.
Buschbeck B.
Buschmann P.
Cabrera S.
Caccia M.
Calvi M.
Camporesi T.
Canale V.
Carena F.
Carroll L.
Castillo Gimenez M.V.
Cattai A.
Cavallo F.R.
Chapkin M.
Charpentier P.
Checchia P.
Chelkov G.A.
Chierici R.
Chliapnikov P.
Chochula P.
Chorowicz V.
Chudoba J.
Cieslik K.
Collins P.
Contri R.
Cortina E.
Cosme G.
Cossutti F.
Costa M.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
A test of the QED process e+e- → γγ(γ) is reported. The data analysed were collected with the DELPHI detector in 1998 and 1999 at the highest energies achieved at LEP, reaching 202 GeV in the centre-of-mass. The total integrated luminosity amounts to 375.7 pb-1. The differential and total cross-sections for the process e+e- → γγ were measured, and found to be in agreement with the QED prediction. 95% confidence level (C.L.) lower limits on the QED cut-off parameters of Λ+ > 330 GeV and λ- > 320 GeV were derived. A 95% C.L. lower bound on the mass of an excited electron of 311 GeV/c2 (for λγ = 1) was obtained, s-channel virtual graviton exchange was searched for, resulting in 95% C.L. lower limits on the string mass scale, M(S): M(S) > 713 GeV/c2 (λ = 1) and M(S) > 691 GeV/c2 (γ = -1). (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
Start page
67
End page
80
Volume
491
Issue
February 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0034641964
Source
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
03702693
Sponsor(s)
We are greatly indebted to our technical collaborators, to the members of the CERN-SL Division for the excellent performance of the LEP collider, and to the funding agencies for their support in building and operating the DELPHI detector. We acknowledge in particular the support of Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Traffics, GZ 616.364/2-III/2a/98; FNRS–FWO, Belgium; FINEP, CNPq, CAPES, FUJB and FAPERJ, Brazil; Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, GA CR 202/96/0450 and GA AVCR A1010521; Danish Natural Research Council; Commission of the European Communities (DG XII); Direction des Sciences de la Matière, CEA, France; Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; National Science Foundation (NWO) and Foundation for Research on Matter (FOM), The Netherlands; Norwegian Research Council; State Committee for Scientific Research, Poland, 2P03B06015, 2P03B03311 and SPUB/P03/178/98; JNICT — Junta Nacional de Investigação Cientı́fica e Tecnológica, Portugal; Vedecka grantova agentura MS SR, Slovakia, Nr. 95/5195/134; Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia; CICYT, Spain, AEN96-1661 and AEN96-1681; The Swedish Natural Science Research Council; Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, UK; Department of Energy, USA, DE–FG02–94ER40817.
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