Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-07-30
Phys.Lett.B465:303-314,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
22 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01092-8
The process e+e- to 2 (or 3) gammas is studied using data recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP. The data sample taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 178 pb-1. The measured cross-section agrees well with the expectation from QED. A fit to the angular distribution is used to obtain improved limits at 95% CL on the QED cut-off parameters: Lambda+ > 304 GeV and Lambda- > 295 GeV as well as a mass limit for an excited electron, Me* > 306 GeV assuming equal e*egamma and eegamma couplings. Graviton exchange in the context of theories with higher dimensions is excluded for scales G+ < 660 GeV and G- < 634 GeV. No evidence for resonance production is found in the invariant mass spectrum of photon pairs. Limits are obtained for the cross-section times branching ratio for a resonance decaying into two photons and produced in association with another photon.
Abbiendi Giovanni
collaboration The OPAL
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