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EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CERN-EP/2003-013 March 26, 2003 Search for Excited Leptons at LEP 3 0 0 2 n u J The L3 Collaboration 5 1 v 6 1 0 6 0 3 Abstract 0 / x A search for charged and neutral excited leptons is performed in 217 pb−1 of e - e+e− collision data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass ener- p e gies from 202 GeV up to 209 GeV. The pair- and single-production mechanisms of h excited electrons, muons and taus, as well as of excited electron-, muon- and tau- : v neutrinos, are investigated and no signals are detected. Combining with L3 results i X from searches at lower centre-of-mass energies, gives improved limits on the masses r and couplings of excited leptons. a Submitted to Phys. Lett. B 1 Introduction ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Charged (e , , and τ ) and neutral (ν , ν and ν ) excited leptons are predicted by composite e τ models where leptons and quarks have substructure [1,2,3]. These models address fundamental questions left open by the Standard Model [4], such as the number of families and the fermion mass values. High energy electron-positron annihilations constitute an excellent environment for the search for excited leptons and several searches have been carried out at LEP [5, 6, 7]. Searches for excited electrons and neutrinos were also performed at the HERA [8] ep collider. This Letter describes the extension of previous L3 searches [