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Lepto-mesons, Leptoquarkonium and the QCD Potential

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider bound states of heavy leptoquark-antiquark pairs (lepto-mesons) as well as leptoquark-antileptoquark pairs (leptoquarkonium). Unlike the situation for top quarks, leptoquarks (if they exist) may live long enough for these hadrons to form. We study the spectra and decay widths of these states in the context of a nonrelativistic potential model which matches the recently calculated two-loop QCD potential at short distances to a successful phenomenological quarkonium potential at intermediate distances. We also compute the expected number of events for these states at future colliders.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9803348,
  title  = {Lepto-mesons, Leptoquarkonium and the QCD Potential},
  author = {David Bowser-Chao and Tom D. Imbo and B. Alex King and Eric C. Martell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9803348},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables, plain TeX, requires harvmac. References updated and minor clarifications made. To appear in Physics Letters B