Published December 14, 2018
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Search for Leptoquarks Coupled to Third-Generation Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Abstract
Three of the most significant measured deviations from standard model predictions, the enhanced decay rate for B→D(*)τν, hints of lepton universality violation in B→K(*)ℓℓ decays, and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, can be explained by the existence of leptoquarks (LQs) with large couplings to third-generation quarks and masses at the TeV scale. The existence of these states can be probed at the LHC in high energy proton-proton collisions. A novel search is presented for pair production of LQs coupled to a top quark and a muon using data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb^(−1), recorded by the CMS experiment. No deviation from the standard model prediction has been observed and scalar LQs decaying exclusively into tμ are excluded up to masses of 1420 GeV. The results of this search are combined with those from previous searches for LQ decays into tτ and bν, which excluded scalar LQs below masses of 900 and 1080 GeV. Vector LQs are excluded up to masses of 1190 GeV for all possible combinations of branching fractions to tμ, tτ and bν. With this analysis, all relevant couplings of LQs with an electric charge of −1/3 to third-generation quarks are probed for the first time.
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© 2018 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 14 September 2018; published 12 December 2018. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR and RAEP (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI and FEDER (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).Attached Files
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- Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung Und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- Ministry of Education and Science (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
- Ministry of Science, Education and Sport (Croatia)
- Croatian Science Foundation
- Research Promotion Foundation (Cyprus)
- Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT)
- Ministry of Education and Research (Estonia)
- Estonian Research Council
- European Regional Development Fund (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary)
- Department of Atomic Energy (India)
- Department of Science and Technology (India)
- Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (Iran)
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Korea)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- Ministry of Education (Malaysia)
- University of Malaya
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV)
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
- Laboratorio Nacional de Supercómputo (LNS)
- Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
- Ministero della Scienza del Montenegro (MOS)
- Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí Inicio-Facultad de Ingeniería (UASLP-FAI)
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand)
- Atomic Energy Commission (Pakistan)
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
- National Science Centre (Poland)
- Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- Russian Ministry of Education and Sciences (MON)
- RosAtom
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Russian Academic Excellence Project (RAEP)
- National Research Center, Kurchatov Institute (Russia)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)
- Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (SEIDI)
- Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (CPAN)
- Plan de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (PCtI)
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
- Swiss Funding Agencies
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
- Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (Thailand)
- Special Task Force for Activating Research (Thailand)
- National Science and Technology Development Agency (Thailand)
- Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu (TÜBİTAK)
- Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)
- National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)
- State Fund for Fundamental Research (Ukraine)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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