Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks in the t-tau channel in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
(2015) Journal of High Energy Physics — Vol. 1507, p. 42 (2015)
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- A search for pair production of third-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to top quark and tau lepton pairs is presented using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. The search is performed using events that contain an electron or a muon, a hadronically decaying tau lepton, and two or more jets. The observations are found to be consistent with the standard model predictions. Assuming that all leptoquarks decay to a top quark and a tau lepton, the existence of pair produced, charge -1/3, third-generation leptoquarks up to a mass of 685 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level. This result constitutes the first direct limit for leptoquarks decaying into a top quark and a tau lepton, and may also be applied directly to the pair production of bottom squarks decaying predominantly via the R-parity violating coupling lambda'[333].
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CMS, Basegmez, S., Beluffi, C., Bondu, O., Bruno, G., Castello, R., Caudron, A., Ceard, L., Da Silveira, G. G., Delaere, C., Du Pree, T., Favart, D., Forthomme, L., Giammanco, A., Hollar, J., Jafari, A., Jez, P., Komm, M., Lemaitre, V., et al. (2015). Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks in the t-tau channel in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1507, 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)042 (Original work published 2015)