Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2005
Abstract
A search for lepton-flavor-violating interactions ep → μX and ep → τX has been performed with the ZEUS detector using the entire HERA I data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 130 pb-1. The data were taken at center-of-mass energies, √s, of 300 and 318 GeV. No evidence of lepton-flavor violation was found, and constraints were derived on leptoquarks (LQs) that could mediate such interactions. For LQ masses below √s, limits were set on λeq1 √β ℓq, where λeq1 is the coupling of the LQ to an electron and a first-generation quark q1, and βℓq is the branching ratio of the LQ to the final-state lepton ℓ (μ or τ) and a quark q. For LQ masses much larger than √s, limits were set on the four-fermion interaction term λeqαλ ℓqβ/MLQ2 for LQs that couple to an electron and a quark qalpha and to a lepton ℓ and a quark q beta, where α and β are quark generation indices. Some of the limits are also applicable to lepton-flavor-violating processes mediated by squarks in R-Parity-violating supersymmetric models. In some cases, especially when a higher-generation quark is involved and for the process ep → τX, the ZEUS limits are the most stringent to date. © Springer-Verlag.
Journal Title
European Physical Journal C
Volume
44
Issue
4
First Page
463
Last Page
479
DOI
10.1140/epjc/s2005-02399-1
First Department
Physics
Recommended Citation
Chekanov, S.; Derrick, M.; Magill, S.; Miglioranzi, S.; Musgrave, B.; Repond, J.; Yoshida, R.; Mattingly, Margarita C. K.; Pavel, N.; Yagües Molina, A. G.; Antonioli, P.; Bari, G.; Basile, M.; Bellagamba, L.; Boscherini, D.; Bruni, A.; Bruni, G.; Cara Romeo, G.; Cifarelli, L.; Cindolo, F.; Contin, A.; Corradi, M.; de Pasquale, S.; Giusti, P.; Iacobucci, G.; Margotti, A.; Montanari, A.; Nania, R.; Palmonari, F.; Pesci, A.; and Polini, A., "Search for Lepton-flavor Violation at HERA" (2005). Faculty Publications. 2074.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/2074
Acknowledgements
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