Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4769 - 4774 (1999)

Measurement of the High-Mass Drell-Yan Cross Section and Limits on Quark-Electron Compositeness Scales

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B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)
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Received 7 December 1998

We present a measurement of the Drell-Yan cross section at high dielectron invariant mass using 120 pb -1 of data collected in pp̅ collisions at sqrt[s]  =  1.8 TeV by the D0 Collaboration during 1992–1996. No deviation from standard model expectations is observed. We use the data to set limits on the quark-electron compositeness scale. The 95% confidence level lower limits on the compositeness scale vary between 3.3 and 6.1 TeV depending on the assumed form of the effective contact interaction.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4769
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4769
PACS: 12.60.Rc, 13.85.Qk

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