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Signal and Backgrounds for Leptoquarks at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study the potentiality of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to unravel the existence of first generation scalar leptoquarks. Working with the most general SU(2)LU(1)YSU(2)_L \otimes U(1)_Y invariant leptoquark interactions, we analyze in detail the signals and backgrounds that lead to a final state containing a pair e+ee^+e^- and jets. Our results indicate that a machine like the LHC will be able to discover leptoquarks with masses up to 2--3 TeV depending on their couplings.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709319,
  title  = {Signal and Backgrounds for Leptoquarks at the LHC},
  author = {O. J. P. Eboli and R. Z. Funchal and T. L. Lungov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709319},
  year   = {2008}
}

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37 pages, revtex, uses epsfig.sty (included), 15 figures (included)