eprintid: 10069 rev_number: 27 eprint_status: archive userid: 599 dir: disk0/00/01/00/69 datestamp: 2008-10-16 10:28:27 lastmod: 2015-07-19 00:49:10 status_changed: 2008-10-16 10:28:27 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: ZEUS Collaboration, The title: Search for QCD-instanton induced events in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA ispublished: pub subjects: 11000 divisions: F60 note: The ZEUS Collaboration includes the following UCL authors: S. Boutle, J.M. Butterworth, C. Gwenlan, R. Hall-Wilton, T.W. Jones, J.H. Loizides, D. Nicholass, M.R. Sutton, C. Targett-Adams and M. Wing. abstract: A search for QCD-instanton-induced events in deep inelastic ep scattering has been performed with the ZEUS detector at the HERA collider, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 pb-1. A kinematic range defined by cuts on the photon virtuality, Q2 > 120 GeV2, and on the Bjorken scaling variable, x > 10-3, has been investigated. The QCD-instanton induced events were modelled by the Monte Carlo generator QCDINS. A background-independent, conservative 95% confidence level upper limit for the instanton cross section of 26 pb is obtained, to be compared with the theoretically expected value of 8.9 pb. date: 2004 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01735-3 vfaculties: VMPS rae2008: 19 oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green doi: 10.1140/epjc/s2004-01735-3 full_text_status: public publication: The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields volume: 34 number: 3 pagerange: 255-265 refereed: TRUE issn: 1434-6044 citation: ZEUS Collaboration, The; (2004) Search for QCD-instanton induced events in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA. The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields , 34 (3) pp. 255-265. 10.1140/epjc/s2004-01735-3 <https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc%2Fs2004-01735-3>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10069/1/10069.pdf