Phys. Rev. D 62, 031101 (2000) [6 pages]

Limits on quark compositeness from high energy jets in p̅ p collisions at 1.8 TeV

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B. Abbott et al. (DØ Collaboration)
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Rapid Communication Received 16 December 1999; published 27 June 2000

Events in p̅ p collisions at sqrt[s]=1.8 TeV with total transverse energy exceeding 500 GeV are used to set limits on quark substructure. The data are consistent with next-to-leading order QCD calculations. We set a lower limit of 2.0 TeV at 95% confidence on the energy scale ΛLL for compositeness in quarks, assuming a model with a left-left isoscalar contact interaction term. The limits on ΛLL are found to be insensitive to the sign of the interference term in the Lagrangian.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.031101
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.031101
PACS: 12.38.Qk, 12.60.Rc, 13.85.Rm

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