J. Breitweg et al., COMPARISON OF ZEUS DATA WITH STANDARD MODEL PREDICTIONS FOR E(-]E(+)XSCATTERING AT HIGH-X AND HIGH-Q(2)()P), Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 74(2), 1997, pp. 207-220
Using the ZEUS detector at HERA, we have studied the reaction e(+)p --
> e(+)X for Q(2) > 5000 GeV2 with a 20.1 pb(-1) data sample collected
during the years 1993 to 1996. For Q(2) below 15000 GeV2, the data are
in good agreement with Standard Model expectations. For Q(2) > 35000
GeV2. two events are observed while 0.145 +/- 0.013 events are expecte
d, A statistical analysis of a large ensemble of simulated Standard Mo
del experiments indicates that with probability 6.0%, an excess at lea
st as unlikely as that observed would occur above some Q(2) cut. For x
> 0.55 and y > 0.75, four events are observed where 0.91 +/- 0.08 eve
nts are expected, A statistical analysis of the two-dimensional distri
bution of the events in x and y yields a probability of 0.72% for the
region x > 0.55 and y > 0.25 and a probability of 7.8% for the entire
Q(2) > 5000 GeV2 data sample. The observed excess above Standard Model
expectations is particularly interesting because it occurs in a previ
ously unexplored kinematic region.