A search for leptoquark bosons in e-p collisions at HERA

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    Abstract

    A search for scalar and vector leptoquarks coupling to first generation fermions is performed in the HI experiment at the ep collider HERA. The analysis uses e-p data collected in 1998 and 1999 at a centre-of-mass energy of 320 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of ∼ 15 pb-1. No evidence for the direct production of such particles is found in a data sample with a large transverse momentum final state electron or with large missing transverse momentum, and constraints on leptoquark models are established. For a Yukawa coupling of electromagnetic strength leptoquarks are excluded for masses up to ∼ 290 GeV. This analysis complements the leptoquark searches performed previously using data collected whilst HERA was operating with positrons instead of electrons. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)234-242
    Number of pages8
    JournalPhysics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Volume523
    Issue number3-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 27 Dec 2001

    Keywords

    • Leptoquarks Role: FMU (Formation, unclassified), RCT (Reactant), FORM (Formation, nonpreparative), RACT (Reactant or reagent) (search for leptoquark bosons in e-p collisions at HERA); Standard model (search for leptoquark bosons in e-p collisions at HERA in relation to)

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