Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2001-03-22
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
20 pages, 12 figures, 7 tables; Invited LEP2 review talk, Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Aosta Va
Scientific paper
For the first time the experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL have presented preliminary results for fermion-pair and photon-pair production in e+e- collisions on the full LEP2 data set. The details of the experimental measurements and results from their LEP-wide combination are presented. No statistically significant deviations from the Standard Model expectations are observed and lower limits, some obtained in dedicated analyses, for new physics phenomena at 95 % confidence level are derived. The scales of contact interactions are constrained to lie above 10-20 TeV, depending on the helicity structure. The Standard Model has thus been tested at LEP2 down to distances 10^{-19} - 10^{-20} m. This has many implications, one example being the interpretation of the new result on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon as coming from muon substructure. For gamma-gamma final states the QED cut-offs are Lambda_+ > 0.44 TeV and Lambda_- > 0.37 TeV. In a combined analysis, using e+e- and gamma-gamma final states, the most stringent lower limits to date, M_s^+ > 1.13 TeV (lambda = +1) and M_s^- > 1.39 TeV (lambda = -1), on the low gravity effective Planck scale are set. Constrains on the scales of string models like TeV strings and D-branes are derived. In the last case the lower limit is 1.5 - 4 TeV, depending on the coupling strength.
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