Search for Excited Quarks in ep Collisions at HERA

A search for excited quarks is performed using the full ep data sample collected by the H1 experiment at HERA, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 475 pb. The electroweak decays of excited quarks q → qγ, q → qZ and q→qW with subsequent hadronic or leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons are considered. No evidence for first generation excited quark production is found. Mass dependent exclusion limits on q production cross sections and on the ratio f/Λ of the coupling to the compositeness scale are derived within gauge mediated models. These limits extend the excluded region compared to previous excited quark searches. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B F.D. Aaron, C. Alexa, K. Alimujiang, V. Andreev, B. Antunovic, A. Asmone, S. Backovic, A. Baghdasaryan, E. Barrelet, W. Bartel, K. Begzsuren, A. Belousov, J.C. Bizot, V. Boudry, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, J. Bracinik, G. Brandt, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, D. Bruncko, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A.J. Campbell, K.B. Cantun Avila, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Cerny, V. Chekelian, A. Cholewa, J.G. Contreras, J.A. Coughlan, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J.B. Dainton, K. Daum, M. Deák, Y. de Boer, B. Delcourt, M. Del Degan, J. Delvax, A. De Roeck, E.A. De Wolf, C. Diaconu, V. Dodonov, A. Dossanov, A. Dubak, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, A. Eliseev, E. Elsen, A. Falkiewicz, P.J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Feltesse, J. Ferencei, D.-J. Fischer, M. Fleischer, A. Fomenko, E. Gabathuler, J. Gayler, S. Ghazaryan, A. Glazov, I. Glushkov, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, M. Gouzevitch, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, B.R. Grell, G. Grindhammer, S. Habib, D. Haidt, C. Helebrant, R.C.W. Henderson, E. Hennekemper, H. Henschel, M. Herbst, G. Herrera, M. Hildebrandt, K.H. Hiller, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, T. Hreus, M. Jacquet, M.E. Janssen, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, A.W. Jung, H. Jung, M. Kapichine, J. Katzy, I.R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Kluge, A. Knutsson, R. Kogler, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, M. Kraemer, K. Krastev, J. Kretzschmar, A. Kropivnitskaya, K. Krüger, K. Kutak, M.P.J. Landon, W. Lange, G. Laštovička-Medin, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, G. Leibenguth, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, G. Li, K. Lipka, A. Liptaj, B. List, J. List, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, E. Malinovski, P. Marage, Ll. Marti, H.-U. Martyn, S.J. Maxfield, A. Mehta, A.B. Meyer, H. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, V. Michels, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz-Mika, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, J.V. Morris, M.U. Mozer, M. Mudrinic, K. Müller, P. Murı́n, B. Naroska, Th. Naumann, P.R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, G. Nowak, K. Nowak, M. Nozicka, B. Olivier, J.E. Olsson, S. Osman, D. Ozerov, V. Palichik, I. Panagoulias, M. Pandurovic, Th. Papadopoulou, C. Pascaud, G.D. Patel, O. Pejchal, E. Perez, A. Petrukhin, I. Picuric, S. Piec, D. Pitzl, R. Plačakytė, B. Pokorny, R. Polifka, B. Povh, T. Preda, V. Radescu, A.J. Rahmat, N. Raicevic, A. Raspiareza, T. Ravdandorj, P. Reimer, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, M. Rotaru, J.E. Ruiz Tabasco, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, D. Šálek, D.P.C. Sankey, M. Sauter, E. Sauvan, S. Schmitt, C. Schmitz, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, F. Sefkow, R.N. Shaw-West, I. Sheviakov, L.N. Shtarkov, S. Shushkevich, T. Sloan, I. Smiljanic, Y. Soloviev, P. Sopicki, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, Z. Staykova, M. Steder, B. Stella, G. Stoicea, U. Straumann, D. Sunar, T. Sykora, V. Tchoulakov, G. Thompson, P.D. Thompson, T. Toll, F. Tomasz, T.H. Tran, D. Traynor, T.N. Trinh, P. Truöl, I. Tsakov, B. Tseepeldorj, J. Turnau, K. Urban, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. Van Mechelen, A. Vargas Trevino, Y. Vazdik, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, M. von den Driesch, D. Wegener, Ch. Wissing, E. Wünsch, J. Žáček, J. Zálešák, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, T. Zimmermann, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer, and R. Zus 1 I. Physikalisches Institut der RWTH, Aachen, Germany 2 Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia