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Signals for Virtual Leptoquark Exchange at HERA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We study the effects of virtual leptoquarks on charged current and neutral current processes at the epep collider HERA. We present the areas of parameter space that can be excluded at HERA by searching for deviations from Standard Model expectations. The best results are obtained by examining the ratio of neutral current to charged current cross sections, R=σNC/σCCR=\sigma_{NC}/\sigma_{CC}, where, with 200\inpb200\inpb of integrated luminosity for unpolarized ee^- and e+e^+ beams, HERA can search for leptoquarks with masses up to 800\gev\sim 800\gev, with leptoquark coupling strengths of order αem\alpha_{em}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9204226,
  title  = {Signals for Virtual Leptoquark Exchange at HERA},
  author = {M. A. Doncheski and J. L. Hewett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9204226},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures (not included)