New Physics Searches at LEP.pdfVIP

OPAL CR-526 hep-ex/04 1107 1 November 2004 NEW PHYSICS SEARCHES AT LEP S. BRAIBANT , G. GIACOMELLI University of Bologna and INFN, Bologna, Italy M. HAUSCHILD CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A short summary is made of several searches for new physics performed at the highest LEP2 energies. 4 0 highest LEP2 energies up to Ecm=209 GeV. 0 1. Introduction They concern : excited leptons, leptoquarks, 2 The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics single top production, multi-photon events with v large missing energy, stable or long-lived o explains quite well all available experimental N results; the theory had very precise charged particles and a test of non-commutative confirmations from the LEP high precision QED. 3 2 measurements [1]. On the other hand the theory 2. Excited Leptons contains too many free parameters, there is a 1 proliferation of quarks and leptons and it seems The existence of 3 families of quarks and v unthinkable that there is no further unification leptons is a strong motivation for substructures. 1 with the strong interaction . Furthermore the In c