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Bounds on QCD Instantons from HERA

T. Carli, M. Kuhlen

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/9708008

Abstract

Signals for processes induced by QCD instantons are searched for in HERA data on the hadronic final state in deep-inelastic scattering. The maximally allowed fraction of instanton induced events is found at 95% confidence level to be on the percent level in the kinematic domain 0.0001<x<0.01 and 5 < Q-squared < 100 GeV-squared. The most stringent limits are obtained from the multiplicity distributions.

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