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Search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks

Search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks
Search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks
We describe a search for the pair production of first-generation scalar and vector leptoquarks in the eejj and eνjj channels by the DØ Collaboration. The data are from the 1992–1996 p
¯
p run at √s=1.8TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We find no evidence for leptoquark production; in addition, no kinematically interesting events are observed using relaxed selection criteria. The results from the eejj and eνjj channels are combined with those from a previous DØ analysis of the ννjj channel to obtain 95% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on the leptoquark pair-production cross section as a function of mass and of β, the branching fraction to a charged lepton. These limits are compared to next-to-leading-order theory to set 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of a first-generation scalar leptoquark of 225, 204, and 79 GeV/c2 for β=1,
1
2
, and 0, respectively. For vector leptoquarks with gauge (Yang-Mills) couplings, 95% C.L. lower limits of 345, 337, and 206 GeV/c2 are set on the mass for β=1,
1
2
, and 0, respectively. Mass limits for vector leptoquarks are also set for anomalous vector couplings.
1550-7998
092004
Abazov, V. M.
829206df-3352-41bf-8075-d3006744e349
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3
DØ collaboration
Abazov, V. M.
829206df-3352-41bf-8075-d3006744e349
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3

DØ collaboration (2001) Search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks. Physical Review D, D64, 092004. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.64.092004).

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We describe a search for the pair production of first-generation scalar and vector leptoquarks in the eejj and eνjj channels by the DØ Collaboration. The data are from the 1992–1996 p
¯
p run at √s=1.8TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We find no evidence for leptoquark production; in addition, no kinematically interesting events are observed using relaxed selection criteria. The results from the eejj and eνjj channels are combined with those from a previous DØ analysis of the ννjj channel to obtain 95% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on the leptoquark pair-production cross section as a function of mass and of β, the branching fraction to a charged lepton. These limits are compared to next-to-leading-order theory to set 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of a first-generation scalar leptoquark of 225, 204, and 79 GeV/c2 for β=1,
1
2
, and 0, respectively. For vector leptoquarks with gauge (Yang-Mills) couplings, 95% C.L. lower limits of 345, 337, and 206 GeV/c2 are set on the mass for β=1,
1
2
, and 0, respectively. Mass limits for vector leptoquarks are also set for anomalous vector couplings.

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Published date: 2001
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

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Local EPrints ID: 411568
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411568
ISSN: 1550-7998
PURE UUID: cf677d68-a750-4070-8a50-05d9397f27d0
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

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Author: V. M. Abazov
Corporate Author: DØ collaboration

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