Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1993-09-15
Phys.Rev.D49:333-342,1994
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
23 Pages (LaTeX), including 3 uufiled postscript figures. WIS--93/90/Sept--PH. To appear in PRD. Changes: updated numbers --->
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.333
We make a comprehensive study of indirect bounds on scalar leptoquarks that couple chirally and diagonally to the first generation by examining available data from low energy experiments as well as from high energy e+ e- and p pbar accelerators. The strongest bounds turn out to arise from low energy data: For leptoquarks that couple to right--handed quarks, the most stringent bound comes from atomic parity violation. For leptoquarks that couple to left--handed quarks, there are two mass regions: At low masses the bounds arise from atomic parity violation or from universality in leptonic pi decays. At masses above a few hundred GeV's, the dominant bounds come from the FCNC processes that are unavoidable in these leptoquarks: The FCNC bound of the up sector, that arises from D-Dbar mixing, combines with the FCNC bounds from the down sector, that arise from rare K decays and K-Kbar mixing, to a bound on the flavour CONSERVING coupling to the first generation. The bounds restrict leptoquarks that couple with electromagnetic strength to lie above 600 GeV or 630 GeV for leptoquarks that couple to RH quarks, and above 1040 GeV, 440 GeV, and 750 GeV for the SU(2)_W scalar, doublet and triplet leptoquarks that couple to LH quarks. These bounds are considerably stronger than the first results from the direct searches at HERA. Our bounds also already exclude large regions in the parameter space that could be examined by various methods proposed for indirect leptoquark searches.
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