Search for Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks Decaying into τb

Authors

V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D0 Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

12-12-2008

Comments

Published in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 101, 241802 (2008). Copyright © 2008 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We have searched for third generation leptoquarks (LQ₃) using 1.05 fb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider operating at √s = 1.96 TeV. We set a 95% C.L. lower limit of 210 GeV on the mass of a scalar LQ₃ state decaying solely to a b quark and a τ lepton.