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EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CERN-EP/2000-143 November 13, 2000 + − Search for Excited Leptons in e e Interactions at √s = 192 − 202 GeV The L3 Collaboration Abstract Excited leptons are searched for using the L3 detector at LEP. The data collected at centre-of-mass energies in the range from 192 up to 202 GeV correspond to a total luminosity of 233 pb−1. No evidence of either pair production of excited leptons, nor of single production is found. From the searches for pair produced excited leptons, lower mass limits close to the kinematic limit are set. From the searches for singly produced excited leptons, upper limits on their couplings are derived in the mass range up to 200 GeV. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B 1 Introduction Several fundamental aspects of the Standard Model [1], such as the number of families and the fermion masses could be explained naturally in composite models where leptons and quarks have substructure [2–4]. The existence of excited leptons is a typical consequence of these models. ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ The excited leptons e , , τ , ν , ν and ν were extensively searched for at the LEP [5,6] e µ τ e+e−collider. First generation excited leptons were also searched for at the HERA [7] ep collider. The increase of the LEP centre-of-mass energy, √s, up to 202 GeV in 1999 extends the range of potential discovery of new heavy particles. The interactions of excited leptons are studied within a model [3] that ass