Search for pair production of first- and second-generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV
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Apyan, Aram; Bauer, Gerry P.; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Klute, Markus; Krajczar, Krisztian F.; Ma, T.; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Roland, Christof E.; Roland, Gunther M.; Rudolph, M.; Stephans, George S. F.; Stockli, F.; Sumorok, Konstanty C.; Sung, K.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wolf, Roger; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, M.; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Luckey, P. David, Jr.; ... Show more Show less
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Results are presented from a search for the pair production of first- and second-generation scalar leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1, collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. The search signatures involve either two charged leptons of the same flavor (electrons or muons) and at least two jets or a single charged lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse energy, and at least two jets. If the branching fraction of the leptoquark decay into a charged lepton and a quark is assumed to be β=1, leptoquark pair production is excluded at the 95% confidence level for masses below 830 GeV and 840 GeV for the first and second generations, respectively. For β=0.5, masses below 640 GeV and 650 GeV are excluded. These limits are the most stringent to date.
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2012-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
Citation
Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A. M. Sirunyan, et al. "Search for Pair Production of First- and Second-generation Scalar Leptoquarks in Pp Collisions at Sqrt[s]=7 TeV." Physical Review D 86.5 (2012), [23 pages] .
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1079-7114
0031-9007