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With more data, the excesses are still there but less marked, and moreover the two experiments do hamburger not exactly agree. The left-hand box shows the kinematical region with the excess now reported by HI, in which Zeus sees only the expected number of events, while the right- hand box shows the kinematical region with the excess now reported by Zeus, in which H1 sees only the expected number of events! t a major international physics - after the official opening, the first A conference in Munich in 1988, talk of the meeting, by Bruce Straub 0.9 review speaker Don Perkins spoke of of Harvard, covered recent HERA 0.8 a 'festival of the Standard Model'. For results from an integrated luminosity 0.7 almost a decade now, major physics (a measure of the number of 0.6 meetings have continued to be collisions collected) which had 0.5 festivals of the conventional picture increased from 14.2 to 23.7 inverse 0.4 of six quarks and leptons grouped picobarns for H1, and from 20.1 to 0.3 pairwise into three families 33.5 for Zeus. 0.2 interacting via electroweak and inter- The earlier results had covered 0.1 : quark forces. neutral current interactions (with the e methdd All physicists agree that the positron emerging unscathed) for 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 M {GeV) Standard Model cannot be the full both experiments, with 2 and 12 e M (GeV) picture, with too many free backscattered events, compared to DA parameters that can only be an expected signal of a fraction of an measured by experiment, and with event and five events from Zeus and the observed pattern of particle H1 respectively. Earlier this year only his Standard Model summary talk at masses unexplained. But like a H1 reported similar charged current Hamburg, Guido Altarelli of CERN quality waterproof watch, the interactions, with the incident underlined the mismatch between the Standard Model had no visible crack positron swallowed up. H1 and Zeus effects. While pointing to prise the case apart and get at the At Hamburg both experiments to possible new physics implications, mechanism inside. reported charged current effects, in his view a statistical fluctuation However earlier this year (April, Zeus and H1 together seeing 28 was the best 'theoretical' explanation. page 1), the Zeus and H1 backscattered events in a kinematical In other physics sectors, neutrino experiments at the HERA electron- zone where 18 ± 4 are expected. anomalies persist in non-accelerator proton collider at DESY, Hamburg, Turning to neutral current data, suggesting that neutrino types reported an intriguing handful of interactions, the new data from the are not immutable, and can mix, excess of positrons recoiling two experiments is not totally while some specific decay channels backwards from collisions at 27.5 coherent. The 2 and 12 anomalous of B mesons (containing the fifth - GeV with 820 GeV protons. The events from Zeus and H1 have now 'beauty' or 'b' - quark) are not quite in backscattering was suggestive of been supplemented by zero and six order.
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