Search for first generation leptoquark pair production in the electron + missing energy + jets final state

Authors

V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Daniel R. Claes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
K. DeVaughan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Michael Eads, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D Johnston, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Ioannis Katsanos, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Sudhir Malik, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2011

Citation

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 84, 071104(R) (2011); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.071104

Comments

Copyright 2011 American Physical Society

Abstract

We present a search for the pair production of first generation scalar leptoquarks (LQ) in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb^-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in pp collisions at √s= 1.96 TeV. In the channel LQLQ → eqv_eq¹, where q, q¹ are u or d quarks, no significant excess of data over background is observed, and we set a 95% C.L. lower limit of 326 GeV on the LQ mass, assuming equal probabilities of LQ decays to eq and v_eq¹.