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Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Summary:A search for pair-produced third generation scalar leptoquarks is presented, using proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7 TeV at the LHC. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 . Each leptoquark is assumed to decay to a tau lepton and a b-quark with a branching fraction equal to 100%. No statistically significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed. Third generation leptoquarks are therefore excluded at 95% confidence level for masses less than 534 GeV.
Main Authors:Onofre, A.
Other Authors:Castro, Nuno Filipe Silva Fernandes; ATLAS Collaboration
Subject:Hadron-Hadron Scattering Hadron-Hadron Scattering Ciências Naturais::Ciências Físicas
Year:2013
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade do Minho
Language:English
Origin:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Summary:A search for pair-produced third generation scalar leptoquarks is presented, using proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7 TeV at the LHC. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 . Each leptoquark is assumed to decay to a tau lepton and a b-quark with a branching fraction equal to 100%. No statistically significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed. Third generation leptoquarks are therefore excluded at 95% confidence level for masses less than 534 GeV.