Leptoquark pair production at the Fermilab Tevatron: Signal and backgrounds
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-06 v4
Abstract
We perform a Monte-Carlo simulation of scalar leptoquark pair production at the Tevatron (energy =1.8 TeV and luminosity =100 pb^{-1}) with ISAJET. We also investigate the dominant sources of Standard Model background: Z*jj, ZZ production and heavy quark top-antitop. We find that the top-antitop background is the most important except near the Z pole where the Z*jj background is peaked. We also evaluate the signal-to-background ratio and find a discovery reach of 130 GeV (170 GeV) for a branching ratio of B(LQ-> eq)=0.5 (B=1).
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9610397,
title = {Leptoquark pair production at the Fermilab Tevatron: Signal and backgrounds},
author = {B. Dion and L. Marleau and G. Simon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9610397},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages, 6 figures, latex (revtex)