Multi-lepton production at high transverse momentum at HERA

A search for events containing two or more high-transverse-momentum isolated leptons has been performed in ep collisions with the ZEUS detector at HERA using the full collected data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 480 pb. The number of observed events has been compared with the prediction from the Standard Model, searching for possible deviations, especially for multilepton events with invariant mass larger than 100 GeV. Good agreement with the Standard Model has been observed. Total and differential cross sections for di-lepton production have been measured in a restricted phase space dominated by photon-photon collisions. The ZEUS Collaboration S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, S. Magill, B. Musgrave, D. Nicholass, J. Repond, R. Yoshida Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4815, USA n M.C.K. Mattingly Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-0380, USA P. Antonioli, G. Bari, L. Bellagamba, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, F. Cindolo, M. Corradi, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, A. Polini INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy e S. Antonelli, M. Basile, M. Bindi, L. Cifarelli, A. Contin, S. De Pasquale, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi University and INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy e D. Bartsch, I. Brock, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, H.-P. Jakob, M. Jüngst, A.E. Nuncio-Quiroz, E. Paul, U. Samson, V. Schönberg, R. Shehzadi, M. Wlasenko Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany b J.D. Morris H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom m M. Kaur, P. Kaur, I. Singh Panjab University, Department of Physics, Chandigarh, India M. Capua, S. Fazio, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, E. Tassi Calabria University, Physics Department and INFN, Cosenza, Italy e J.Y. Kim Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea Z.A. Ibrahim, F. Mohamad Idris, B. Kamaluddin, W.A.T. Wan Abdullah Jabatan Fizik, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia r Y. Ning, Z. Ren, F. Sciulli Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington on Hudson, New York 10027, USA o J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, A. Galas, K. Olkiewicz, B. Pawlik, P. Stopa, L. Zawiejski The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland i L. Adamczyk, T. Bo ld, I. Grabowska-Bo ld, D. Kisielewska, J. Lukasik, M. Przybycień, L. Suszycki Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland p