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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 101802 (2005) [7 pages]

Search for Excited and Exotic Electrons in the eγ Decay Channel in pp̅ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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D. Acosta et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 6 October 2004; published 16 March 2005

We present a search for excited and exotic electrons (e*) decaying to an electron and a photon, both with high transverse momentum. We use 202  pb-1 of data collected in pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector. No signal above standard model expectation is seen for associated ee* production. We discuss the e* sensitivity in the parameter space of the excited electron mass Me* and the compositeness energy scale Λ. In the contact interaction model, we exclude 132  GeV/c2<Me*<879  GeV/c2 for Λ=Me* at 95% confidence level (C.L.). In the gauge-mediated model, we exclude 126  GeV/c2<Me*<430  GeV/c2 at 95% C.L. for the phenomenological coupling f/Λ≈10-2  GeV-1.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101802
PACS:
14.60.Hi, 12.60.Rc, 13.85.Qk, 12.60.-i