Contact interactions and high-Q2 events in e+p collisions at HERA

We consider eeqq contact interactions as a possible origin of an excess of events above Standard Model predictions in e p → e+ jet at high Q2 observed by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations at HERA. The HERA data prefer chirality RL or LR contact terms and atomic physics parity violation measurements severely limit parity-odd contact terms. With equal left-right and right-left chirality interactions at an effective scale of order 3 TeV we are able to reproduce the main features of the HERA data and still be consistent with Drell-Yan pair production at the Tevatron and hadron production at LEP2 and TRISTAN.