Sirunyan, AM and Tumasyan, A and Adam, W and Ambrogi, F and Asilar, E and Bergauer, T and Brandstetter, J and Dragicevic, M (2018) Search for Leptoquarks Coupled to Third-Generation Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=13 TeV. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS .
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Abstract
Three of the most significant measured deviations from standard model predictions, the enhanced decay rate for B -> D-(*())tau nu, hints of lepton universality violation in B -> K-(*())ll decays, and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, can be explained by the existence of leptoquarks (LQs) with large couplings to third-generation quarks and masses at the TeV scale. The existence of these states can be probed at the LHC in high energy proton-proton collisions. A novel search is presented for pair production of LQs coupled to a top quark and a muon using data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1), recorded by the CMS experiment. No deviation from the standard model prediction has been observed and scalar LQs decaying exclusively into t mu are excluded up to masses of 1420 GeV. The results of this search are combined with those from previous searches for LQ decays into t tau and b nu, which excluded scalar LQs below masses of 900 and 1080 GeV. Vector LQs are excluded up to masses of 1190 GeV for all possible combinations of branching fractions to t mu, t tau and b nu. With this analysis, all relevant couplings of LQs with an electric charge of -1/3 to third-generation quarks are probed for the first time.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2019 05:28 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2019 05:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61732 |
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