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Implications of a charged-current anomaly at HERA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We demonstrate that in the presence of mixing between different scalar leptoquark multiplets it is possible to simultaneously account for the HERA high-Q2Q^2 neutral current anomaly, and produce a charged current anomaly of comparable magnitude. The reduced branching ratio to electrons and jets of the lightest leptoquark state results in a significant weakening of the CDF/D0 limits on scalar leptoquarks; masses consistent with the HERA neutral current excess are comfortably within the allowed range. We show that the possibilities for such a successful mixed leptoquark scenario are quite limited, and we investigate some aspects of their phenomenology.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9705414,
  title  = {Implications of a charged-current anomaly at HERA},
  author = {K. S. Babu and Christopher Kolda and John March-Russell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9705414},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages Latex. Corrected 3-body decay widths

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