Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in the evjj channel in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
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Bendavid, Joshua L.
Busza, Wit
Butz, Erik M.
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hahn, Kristian Allan
Kim, Y.
Date Issued
August 2011
Journal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Search for First Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in the evjj Channel in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV.” Physics Letters B 703, no. 3 (September 2011): 246–266. © 2011 CERN
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Abstract
A search for pair-production of first generation scalar leptoquarks is performed in the final state containing an electron, a neutrino, and at least two jets using proton–proton collision data at √s = 7 TeV. The data were collected by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb[superscript −1]. The number of observed events is in good agreement with the predictions for standard model processes. Prior CMS results in the dielectron channel are combined with this electron + neutrino search. A 95% confidence level combined lower limit is set on the mass of a first generation scalar leptoquark at 339 GeV for β=0.5, where β is the branching fraction of the leptoquark to an electron and a quark. These results represent the most stringent direct limits to date for values of β greater than 0.05.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.089
