The leptoquark Hunter's guide: large coupling

Date
2019-01-15
Authors
Schmaltz, Martin
Zhong, Yi-Ming
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OA Version
Citation
M. Schmaltz, Y.-.M. Zhong. 2019. "The leptoquark Hunter's guide: large coupling." JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, Issue 1, pp. ? - ? (41). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2019)132
Abstract
Leptoquarks have recently received much attention especially because they may provide an explanation to the 𝑅_𝐷(∗)and𝑅_𝐾(∗) anomalies in rare B meson decays. In a previous paper we proposed a systematic search strategy for all possible leptoquark flavors by focusing on leptoquark pair production. In this paper, we extend this strategy to large (order unity) leptoquark couplings which offer new search opportunities: single leptoquark production and t-channel leptoquark exchange with dilepton final states. We discuss the unique features of the different search channels and show that they cover complementary regions of parameter space. We collect and update all currently available bounds for the different flavor final states from LHC searches and from atomic parity violation measurements. As an application of our analysis, we find that current limits do not exclude a leptoquark explanation of the B physics anomalies but that the high luminosity run of the LHC will reach the most interesting parameter space.
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