Implications of a charged-current anomaly at HERA
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چکیده
We demonstrate that in the presence of mixing between different scalar leptoquark multiplets it is possible to simultaneously account for the HERA high-Q2 neutral current anomaly, and produce a charged current anomaly of comparable magnitude. The reduced branching ratio to electrons and jets of the lightest leptoquark state results in a significant weakening of the CDF/D0 limits on scalar leptoquarks; masses consistent with the HERA neutral current excess are comfortably within the allowed range. We show that the possibilities for such a successful mixed leptoquark scenario are quite limited, and we investigate some aspects of their phenomenology. Research supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG02-90ER40542, by the W. M. Keck Foundation, and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Email: [email protected], [email protected],
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