Single- and multi-photon production in e e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV

R Barate; D Buskulic; D Decamp; P Ghez; C Goy; S Jezequel; JP Lees; A Lucotte; F Martin; E Merle; MN Minard; JY Nief; B Pietrzyk; R Alemany; G Boix; MP Casado; M Chmeissani; JM Crespo; M Delfino; E Fernandez; M Fernandez-Bosman; L Garrido; E Graugès; A Juste; M Martinez; G Merino; R Miquel; LM Mir; P Morawitz; IC Park; A Pascual; JA Perlas; I Riu; F Sanchez; A Colaleo; D Creanza; M de Palma; G Gelao; G Iaselli; G Maggi; M Maggi; S Nuzzo; A Ranieri; G Raso; F Ruggieri; G Selvaggi; L Silvestris; P Tempesta; A Tricomi; G Zito; X Huang; J Lin; Q Ouyang; T Wang; Y Xie; R Xu; S Xue; J Zhang; L Zhang; W Zhao; D Abbaneo; U Becker; P Bright-Thomas; D Casper; M Cattaneo; V Ciulli; G Dissertori; H Drevermann; RW Forty; M Frank; F Gianotti; R Hagelberg; JB Hansen; J Harvey; P Janot; B Jost; I Lehraus; P Maley; P Mato; A Minten; L Moneta; N Qi; A Pacheco; F Ranjard; L Rolandi; D Rousseau; D Schlatter; M Schmitt; O Schneider; W Tejessy; F Teubert; IR Tomalin; M Vreeswijk; H Wachsmuth; Z Ajaltouni; F Badaud; G Chazelle; O Deschamps; A Falvard; C Ferdi

Journal article

Single- and multi-photon production in e e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV

R Barate, D Buskulic, D Decamp, P Ghez, C Goy, S Jezequel, JP Lees, A Lucotte, F Martin, E Merle, MN Minard, JY Nief, B Pietrzyk, R Alemany, G Boix, MP Casado, M Chmeissani, JM Crespo, M Delfino, E Fernandez Show all

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | Published : 1998

DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00468-7

Abstract

The production of final states involving one or more energetic photons from e+e- collisions is studied in a sample of 58.5 pb-1 of data recorded at a centre-of-mas s energy of 183 GeV by the ALEPH detector at LEP. The e+e- → νν̄γ(γ) and e+e- → γγ(γ) cross sections are measured. The data are in good agreement with predictions based on the Standard Model and are used to set upper limits on the cross sections for anomalous photon production in the context of two supersymmetric models and for various extensions to QED. In particular, in the context of a super-light gravitino model a cross section upper limit of 0.38 pb is placed on the process e+e- → G̃G̃γ, allowing a lower limit to be set on th..

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