Probing QCD-instanton induced effects in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

Abstract

After a brief introduction into the phenomenology of instantons, results from instanton perturbation theory applied to deep-inelastic electron proton scattering are summarized. Based on event signatures derived from Monte Carlo studies, strategies for enhancing instanton induced events relative to Standard Model deep-inelastic events are developed. Preliminary results for a search for such events performed with the H1 detector at HERA are given.

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, talk given at the CICHEP 2001 in Cairo, Egypt