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Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector.

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Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector. / Abazov, V. M.; Bertram, Iain; Borissov, Guennadi et al.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 647, No. 2-3, 05.04.2007, p. 74-81.

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Abazov, VM, Bertram, I, Borissov, G, Fox, H, Ratoff, P & Sopczak, A 2007, 'Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector.', Physics Letters B, vol. 647, no. 2-3, pp. 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.01.064

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Abazov, V. M., Bertram, I., Borissov, G., Fox, H., Ratoff, P., & Sopczak, A. (2007). Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector. Physics Letters B, 647(2-3), 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.01.064

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Abazov VM, Bertram I, Borissov G, Fox H, Ratoff P, Sopczak A. Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector. Physics Letters B. 2007 Apr 5;647(2-3):74-81. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.01.064

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Abazov, V. M. ; Bertram, Iain ; Borissov, Guennadi et al. / Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions decaying into muons and quarks with the D0 detector. In: Physics Letters B. 2007 ; Vol. 647, No. 2-3. pp. 74-81.

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abstract = "We report on a search for second generation leptoquarks (LQ2) which decay into a muon plus quark in collisions at a center-of-mass energy of in the D0 detector using an integrated luminosity of about 300 pb−1. No evidence for a leptoquark signal is observed and an upper bound on the product of the cross section for single leptoquark production times branching fraction β into a quark and a muon was determined for second generation scalar leptoquarks as a function of the leptoquark mass. This result has been combined with a previously published D0 search for leptoquark pair production to obtain leptoquark mass limits as a function of the leptoquark–muon–quark coupling, λ. Assuming λ=1, lower limits on the mass of a second generation scalar leptoquark coupling to a u quark and a muon are mLQ2>274 GeV and mLQ2>226 GeV for β=1 and β=1/2, respectively.",
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AU - Borissov, Guennadi

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AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Sopczak, Andre

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AB - We report on a search for second generation leptoquarks (LQ2) which decay into a muon plus quark in collisions at a center-of-mass energy of in the D0 detector using an integrated luminosity of about 300 pb−1. No evidence for a leptoquark signal is observed and an upper bound on the product of the cross section for single leptoquark production times branching fraction β into a quark and a muon was determined for second generation scalar leptoquarks as a function of the leptoquark mass. This result has been combined with a previously published D0 search for leptoquark pair production to obtain leptoquark mass limits as a function of the leptoquark–muon–quark coupling, λ. Assuming λ=1, lower limits on the mass of a second generation scalar leptoquark coupling to a u quark and a muon are mLQ2>274 GeV and mLQ2>226 GeV for β=1 and β=1/2, respectively.

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