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Bounds from LEP on unparticle interactions with electroweak bosons

A conformally invariant hidden sector is considered, with a scalar operator $O$ of low dimension that couples to the electro-weak gauge bosons of the Standard Model, via terms such as $O F^{μν}F_{μν}$. By examining single photon production at LEP, we bound the strength of these interactions. We apply our results, along with those of Delgado and Strassler and of Caracciolo and Rychkov, to improve the bound on four-photon production through "unparticle self-interactions", as proposed by Feng et al. We find the maximum allowable cross-section is of order a few tens of femtobarns at the 14 TeV LHC, and lies well below 1 fb for a wide range of parameters.