Chemical and Biomolecular Research Papers -- Faculty Authors Series

 

Search for Leptoquark Pairs Decaying into νν + jets in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Gregory Snow
D0 Collaboration

Document Type Article

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. VOLUME 88, NUMBER 19(2002). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2002 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We present the results of a search for leptoquark (LQ) pairs in (85.2 ± 3.7) pb-1 of pp̅ collider data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. We observe no evidence for leptoquark production and set a limit on σ(pp̅ → LQ L̅Q̅→ νν + jets) as a function of the mass of the leptoquark (mLQ). Assuming the decay LQ → νq, we exclude scalar leptoquarks for mLQ< 98 GeV/c2, and vector leptoquarks for mLQ < 200 GeV/c2 and coupling which produces the minimum cross section, at a 95% confidence level.

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