Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 53: 167-175
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0468-3

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

QUAERO@H1: an interface to high- HERA event data

¹ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
² Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

^* e-mail: scaron@physik.uni-freiburg.de

Received: 30 October 2006
Revised: 18 October 2007
Published online: 17 November 2007

Abstract

Distributions from high- HERA event data analyzed in a general search for new physics at H1 have been incorporated into QUAERO, an algorithm designed to automate tests of specific hypo-theses with high energy collider data. The use of QUAERO@H1 to search for leptoquarks, R-parity violating supersymmetry, and excited quarks provides examples to develop intuition for the algorithm’s performance.