H1prelim-06-064

Search for events with tau leptons in ep collisions at HERA

Reference X. Stella, presented at DIS 2006, Spring 2006
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Contact G. Brandt, C. Diaconu
Abstract A search for the production of tau leptons in ep-collisions with the H1 detector at HERA is presented. A total integrated luminosity of 287 pb-1 taken in the years 1994-2005 is analysed, which includes recent data collected in the period 2003-2005 (HERA-II), where 51 pb-1 of e+p data and 111 e-p data were taken. Tau leptons are identified by using an identification algorithm based on the search for isolated charged tracks associated to narrow hadronic jets detected in the calorimeters, a typical signature of the one-prong hadronic tau decay. In the region where the hadronic system (X) has a transverse momentum PTX > 25 GeV 3 events are observed in the data where the Standard Model (SM) expectation is 0.74 +- 0.13 events.
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