Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in pp¯ collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector

D0 Collaboration

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    Abstract

    We report on a search for second generation leptoquarks (LQ2) which decay into a muon plus quark in pp¯ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 1.96 TeV in the D0 detector using an integrated luminosity of about 300 pb−1. No evidence for a leptoquark signal is observed and an upper bound on the product of the cross section for single leptoquark production times branching fraction β into a quark and a muon was determined for second generation scalar leptoquarks as a function of the leptoquark mass. This result has been combined with a previously published D0 search for leptoquark pair production to obtain leptoquark mass limits as a function of the leptoquark–muon–quark coupling, λ. Assuming λ = 1, lower limits on the mass of a second generation scalar leptoquark coupling to a u quark and a muon are mLQ2 > 274 GeV and mLQ2 > 226 GeV for β = 1 and β = 1/2, respectively
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)74-81
    Number of pages8
    JournalPhysics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Volume647
    Issue number2-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Apr 2007

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