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Constraints on the Scale of New Constraints on the Scale of New Physics Phenomena from the Combined Physics Phenomena from the Combined
LEP IILEP IIf ff f and and γγγγ Measurements Measurements
Dimitri BourilkovUniversity of Florida
for the LEP Electroweak WG
APS April Meeting 2004, Denver, CO, USA
May 1, 2004
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LEP2 Constraints on New PhysicsLEP2 Constraints on New Physics
Anything coupling to ff / γγ can be probed
New Physics at much higher scale can give observable effects through interference with the SM amplitudes
LEP2 provides a window (in many cases still the best) to TeV scale physics: extra dimensions, contact interactions, heavy Z’ bosons, leptoquarks …
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Fermion-pair production @ LEP2Fermion-pair production @ LEP2
Falling signal, rising backgrounds (2, W+W-, ZZ …)
Initial state radiation: select non-radiative samples highest energy / sensitivity to new physics – probe higher scales than direct searches at same s
Anything coupling to ff can be probed
LEP2 Monte Carlo Workshop,
hep-ph/0007180, CERN-YR-2000-009
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Photon-pair ProductionPhoton-pair Production
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LEP2LEP2f f and f f and γγ Groupsγγ Groups
Combine the measurements of LEP2 data to a common signal definition:
720 pb-1/exp @ 130-208 GeV (> 190 GeV final/preliminary)
• Total and differential cross sections (f f and γγ )
• Forward-backward asymmetries (μ+μ- and τ+τ-)
• Heavy flavors: Rb and Rc, , Afb
• Test the SM at % level and constrain tightly current / future extensions
• Correlations obtain full error matrices after averaging
• Latest results: hep-ex/0312023, CERN-EP/2003-091
Web page: http://lepewwg.web.cern.ch/LEPEWWG/lep2
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Contact Interactions etc.Contact Interactions etc. general framework for new int.:• scale s• coupling g (convention g2 = 4)• we constrain g / • operators with canonical
dimension N > 4 coupling 1/MN-4
• |ij| < 1 helicity amplitudes
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Fermion Pairs Fermion Pairs
Averaged over s: h/ h < 1 % (theory 0.3 %); Afb ~ 0.01 (th. 0.004)
Good agreement with SM – hadron xsec 1.7 s.d. excess averaged over all s
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dd/dcos/dcos e e++ee--
Averaged over s: (/ )forward ~ 1 % (th ~ 0.5%) (/ )central ~ 1.5 % (theory ~ 1.5%)
Contact interactions scale > 16 (18) TeV (VV) re < 1.4 10-19 m
Extra dimensions scale > 1.2 (1.1) TeV (=1) (1999: scale Ms > 1.1 TeV from combined analysis of 183-189 GeV data: JHEP 08(1999)006 )
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dd/dcos/dcosμμ++μμ-- and τ and τ++ττ--
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Heavy FlavorsHeavy Flavors
Averaged over s: Rb/Rb ~ 2.5 % ; Afbbb ~ 0.06
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Contact InteractionsContact Interactions
95% CL limits for
μ+μ- and τ+τ- :
> 8.6 – 21.7 TeV
Assume only 1 flavor active
> 2.2 – 15.3 TeV bb
> 1.5 – 10.3 TeV cc
95% CL limits for hadrons:
> 3.7 – 9.3 TeV
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Z’ BosonsZ’ Bosons
• New neutral, heavy boson Z’ (arises in many models)• Couplings of Z’ tof f model dependent• Z and Z’ can mix mixing angle ZZ’ (from LEP1 mixing is
very small; assume 0)
Model MZ’ (GeV)
Limits @ 95 % CL
673
481
434
LR 804
SSM 1787
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γγγγ
(/ ) ~ 1.2 % (theory ~ 1 %) + > 392 GeV - > 364 GeV Ms > 0.97 TeV
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Scales for New PhysicsScales for New Physics
• Extra dimensions from e+e- and γγ combined (DB):
MHewett > 1.4 (1.2) TeV (=1) (D0 2001 -1.1(1.0) TeV)
• Contact interactions: scales up to 21.7 TeV• Z’ : m > 0.434 – 1.787 TeV (diff. models)
• Size of the electron: re < 1.4 10-19 m
(quark: r < ~10-18 m HERA, r < 5.6 10-19 m CDF 1997)
• QED cutoff: + > 392 GeV - > 364 GeV
• LHC – contact interactions up to 30 – 50 TeV LC – up to ~ 90 TeV (r < 3 10-20 m ; e.g. hep-ph/0305125)
Extra dimension up to ~ 4 TeV
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ConclusionsConclusions
• SM describes the full set of precise LEP2 measurements @ 130-208 GeV (results above 190 GeV final/preliminary)
• No hint for new phenomena … in spite of sensitive searches!
• Many new limits @ TeV scale (Extra dimensions, CI, Z’, leptoquarks …) – already “eating” in the LHC / LC
direct discovery range• Combine final measurements, provide a reference point
in the era after LEP & constrain tightly physics beyond the SM