Search for Second and Third Generation Leptoquarks Including Production via Technicolor Interactions in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Authors

T. Affolder, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Date of this Version

9-4-2000

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2056 (2000). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2000 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report the results of a search for second and third generation leptoquarks using 88 pb^-1 of data recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Color triplet technipions, which play the role of scalar leptoquarks, are investigated due to their potential production in decays of strongly coupled color octet technirhos. Events with a signature of two heavy flavor jets and missing energy may indicate the decay of a second (third) generation leptoquark to a charm (bottom) quark and a neutrino. As the data are found to be consistent with standard model expectations, mass limits are determined.