Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-04-21
Nucl.Phys. B512 (1998) 42-60
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages. Standard Latex. Final version to appear in Nuclear Physics B. Minor changes. References added
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00757-8
The H1 and ZEUS collaborations have recently reported a significant excess of events at high $Q^2$ in positron-proton collisions. While there exists insufficient data to conclusively determine the origin of this excess, one possibility is that it is due to a new leptoquark at mass scale around 200 GeV. We examine the type of leptoquark states that exist in superstring derived standard-like models, and show that, while these models may contain the standard leptoquark states which exist in Grand Unified Theories, they also generically contain new and exotic leptoquark states with fractional lepton number, $\pm1/2$. In contrast to the traditional GUT-type leptoquark states, the couplings of the exotic leptoquarks to the Standard Model states are generated after the breaking of $U(1)_{B-L}$. This important feature of the exotic leptoquark states may result in local discrete symmetries which forbid some of the undesired leptoquark couplings. We examine these couplings in several models and study the phenomenological implications. The flavor symmetries of the superstring models are found to naturally suppress leptoquark flavor changing processes.
Elwood John K.
Faraggi Alon E.
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