Can HERA See an $e u --> e c$ Signal of a Virtual Leptoquark?

Details Can HERA See an $e u --> e c$ Signal of a Virtual Leptoquark? Can HERA See an $e u --> e c$ Signal of a Virtual Leptoquark?

1992-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9206208v1

Phys.Rev. D46 (1992) 3757-3761

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 Pages (LaTeX), including 4 postscript figures at the end of the file. Feynman diagrams available by request

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3757

Virtual leptoquarks could be detected at HERA through some nonstandard effects. Here we explore the possibility that virtual leptoquarks could be discovered via $e u --> e c$ scattering, assuming integrated luminosity of 200 pb$^{-1}$ and charm identification efficiency of 1%. We study the implications of low energy data for the leptoquarks couplings and find that the most relevant bound for the HERA cross sections comes from inclusive $c --> e^+e^-~+~any$. This bound implies that the $e u --> e c$ cross sections for virtual leptoquarks are just too small for observation of the signal. With an improvement by a factor of ~2 on the luminosity or on charm identification it could be possible to see virtual leptoquarks with {\it maximum couplings} up to ~1.5 - 2 TeV. However, the prospects for discovering the virtual particles if their couplings are somewhat below present bounds are very dim. We point out that this cross section could be very large for leptoquarks lighter than HERA's kinematical limit, and if such a leptoquark is discovered we recommend searching for a possible $e u --> e c$ signal. Our results may also serve as an update on the maximum cross sections for leptoquark mediated $e u --> \mu c$ scattering.

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