Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks in the tτ channel in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

• Main Authors: Apyan, Aram (Contributor), Barbieri, Richard Alexander (Contributor), Baty, Austin Alan (Contributor), Bierwagen, Katharina (Contributor), Brandt, Stephanie Akemi (Contributor), Busza, Wit (Contributor), Cali, Ivan Amos (Contributor), Di Matteo, Leonardo (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Gulhan, Doga Can (Contributor), Klute, Markus (Contributor), Lai, Yue Shi (Contributor), Lee, Yen-Jie (Contributor), Levin, Andrew Michael (Contributor), Luckey, P. David, Jr (Contributor), McGinn, Christopher Francis (Contributor), Niu, Xinmei (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Ralph, Duncan Kelley (Contributor), Roland, Christof E. (Contributor), Roland, Gunther M. (Contributor), Stephans, George S. F. (Contributor), Sumorok, Konstanty C. (Contributor), Varma, Mukund (Contributor), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Contributor), Veverka, Jan (Contributor), Wang, J. (Contributor), Wang, Ta-Wei (Contributor), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Contributor), Yang, Mingming (Contributor), Zhukova, Victoria (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag, 2015-08-26T18:39:39Z.
• Subjects: Article
• Online Access: Get fulltext

A search for pair production of third-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to top quark and τ lepton pairs is presented using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. The search is performed using events that contain an electron or a muon, a hadronically decaying τ lepton, and two or more jets. The observations are found to be consistent with the standard model predictions. Assuming that all leptoquarks decay to a top quark and a τ lepton, the existence of pair produced, charge −1/3, third-generation leptoquarks up to a mass of 685 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level. This result constitutes the first direct limit for leptoquarks decaying into a top quark and a τ lepton, and may also be applied directly to the pair production of bottom squarks decaying predominantly via the R-parity violating coupling λ [subscript 333] '.
United States. Dept. of Energy
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation