Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract
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−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 333 ′.
DOI
10.1007/JHEP07(2015)042
Publication Date
2015
Recommended Citation
Khachatryan, Vardan; Bhopatkar, Vallary; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, Himali; Mareskas-palcek, Darren; Roy, Tuhin S.; Yumiceva, Francisco; and The CMS Collaboration, "Search For Third-generation Scalar Leptoquarks In The tτ Channel In Proton-proton Collisions At √s = 8 TeV" (2015). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 552.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/552