151. A search for scalar leptoquarks in Z0 decays
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H. E. Stier, P. G. Estabrooks, Erez Etzion, Gareth J. Barker, N. I. Geddes, P. Schenk, A. D. Schaile, Shlomit Tarem, P. M. Watkins, H. Mes, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, S. Rossberg, I. P. Duerdoth, V. H. Winterer, Tohru Takeshita, I. Wingerter, O. Schaile, A. P. Wagner, R. P. Middleton, B. Poli, S. R. Hou, J. M. Roney, Georges Azuelos, G. Beaudoin, L. Janissen, D. J. Miller, K. W. Bell, Max Weber, Misao Sasaki, H. O. Ogren, J. Goldberg, B. C. Shen, Shlomo Dado, H. Takeda, M. Hansroul, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, B. Nellen, N. Wermes, C. Milstene, P. Leblanc, F. Odorici, W. G. Scott, P. S. Wells, F. G. Oakham, C. J. Virtue, O. Runolfsson, X. C. Lou, P. G. Murphy, M. M. Deninno, Terry Richard Wyatt, B. Holl, J. Kroll, R. J. Homer, R. Kowalewski, L. Lessard, Andris Skuja, S. W. O'Neale, Ehud Duchovni, M. Coupland, T. J. Smith, F. X. Gentit, J. E. Conboy, J. D. Gillies, M. Ogg, M. J. Losty, Peter R Hobson, Giora Mikenberg, Silvia Arcelli, Claudio Grandi, P. Igo-Kemenes, D. C. Imrie, Richard Keeler, P. Mättig, I. Zacharov, C. Y. Chang, M. J. Goodrick, A. Pouladdej, I. Cohen, Tetsuro Mashimo, P. Singh, T. Mouthuy, C. Moisan, J. P. Walker, Horst Breuker, R. J. Barlow, G. Maringer, H. Ihssen, H. Jeremie, K. Stephens, C. Fukunaga, C. M. Hawkes, M. Cooper, Daniel Lellouch, R. Shypit, Takehiko Mori, G. K. VanDalen, P. W. Jeffreys, R. Van Kooten, F. S. Merritt, J. R. McNutt, G. P. Siroli, J. D. Hobbs, Claude Leroy, C. Wahl, P. Taras, S. W. Gensler, J. P. Pansart, R. W. L. Jones, N. C. Wood, W. Gorn, R. E. Hughes-Jones, U. Maur, Mitsuaki Nozaki, A. M. Lee, G. G. Hanson, F. Lamarche, D. E. Plane, R. J. Hemingway, Stephen Hillier, P. Le Du, H. Kreutzmann, B. Panzer-Steindel, V. Gibson, M. H. Lehto, M. A. Whalley, G. A. Bahan, J. Mildenberger, Harold Nguyen, Gunter Quast, S. Wotton, T. Kobayashi, G. M. Dallavalle, John Baines, Margret Fincke-Keeler, I. J. Bloodworth, C. P. Howarth, P. Jovanovic, E. K. U. Gross, A. Gaidot, M. Kuwano, Gideon Bella, H. J. Burckhart, N. K. Watson, M. Sproston, G. A. Snow, C. P. Ward, B. B. Brabson, M. Weymann, A. Buijs, J. E. Pilcher, Austin Ball, G. Giacomelli, J. Hart, E.J. Prebys, A. M. Rossi, D. E. Klem, D. R. Ward, M. Settles, D. Menszner, R. F. McGowan, D. G. Fong, Sachio Komamiya, Jacqueline Batley, B. P. O'Neill, Alan Watson, D. J.P. Dumas, P. Pfister, J. L. Pinfold, A. Astbury, J. Gascon, T. Tsukamoto, H. von der Schmitt, Alessandro Montanari, M. W. Moss, O. Ganel, S. Levegrün, H. M. Fischer, A. J. Martin, M. F. Turner, Y. Yang, P. Routenburg, P. M. Hattersley, T. P. Kokott, Rene Brun, J. Hagemann, J. C. Armitage, G. W. Wilson, D. Karlen, K. Riles, G. Eckerlin, M. S. Dixit, Frans Meijers, C. J. Oram, W. R. Gibson, P. F. Harrison, S. Bougerolle, W. J. Collins, S. J. Pawley, C. Ho, Marcello Mannelli, A. Michelini, Paul Kyberd, F. K. Loebinger, C. K. Hargrove, Stephen Lloyd, M. Jobes, U. Binder, D. Hochman, N. J. Thackray, P. Scharff-Hansen, G. D. Lafferty, A. Dieckmann, Claus Kleinwort, P. A. Elcombe, L. Köpke, W. J. Larson, P. Teixeira-Diaz, H. Przysiezniak, D. R. Rust, M. W. Redmond, J. W. Gary, T. W. Pritchard, J. G. Layter, A. Beck, A. Rollnik, A. M. Smith, P. E.L. Clarke, T. Behnke, E. Heflin, G. Vasseur, B. Lorazo, P. Lennert, Phillip Allport, R. M. Brown, S. Sanghera, M. Hauschild, S. A. Robins, R. Sobie, M. Jimack, John Allison, J. P. Martin, Gideon Alexander, Lorne Levinson, Paolo Capiluppi, K. J. Anderson, John Hill, P. Paschievici, B. W. Kennedy, S. De Jong, R. G. Kellogg, J. Banks, D. L. Rees, J. Becker, R. Yaari, S. Weisz, R. D. Heuer, Fabrizio Fabbri, D. Van den plas, S. Bethke, Marco Cuffiani, Stefano Marcellini, P. Debu, P R Poffenberger, J. M. Lorah, W. Mohr, D. Axen, A. Jawahery, G. Tysarczyk-Niemeyer, Peter Sherwood, R. W. Springer, Michael Dittmar, G. Yekutieli, J. Ludwig, K. Runge, P. Bock, A. Simon, Otmar Biebel, D. G. Charlton, M. Couch, R. Humbert, G. Duckeck, A. A. Carter, J. T.M. Chrin, D. Strom, G. T. Zorn, H. M. Bosch, T. Kawamoto, Wolfram Dietrich Zeuner, S. Orito, John H. Schwarz, D. A. Hinshaw, R. Mir, H. Oh, M. J. Oreglia, J. R. Carter, G. N. Patrick, J. von Krogh, P. Ashton, Dave Robinson, S. Schreiber, T. J. McMahon, R. K. Carnegie, J. A. Wilson, and W. Schappert
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Quark ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Scalar (physics) ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Leptoquark ,Neutrino ,Particle Physics - Experiment ,Storage ring ,Lepton - Abstract
A search for scalar leptoquarks has been performed with data from the OPAL detector at the e+e− storage ring LEP. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.3 pb−1 no evidence for leptoquark production was observed where the leptoquark decays into a quark and either a charged lepton (e, μ, τ) or a neutrino. An upper limit of 1.7 pb on the production cross section for leptoquarks is obtainedassuming a branching ratio of 50% for the decay of the leptoquark into the channels with a charged lepton. Lower limits on the leptoquark mass between 41.4 and 46.4 GeV/c2 at 95% CL are obtained, depending on the effecte SU(2) × U(1) invariant couplings assigned to the leptoquark.
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- 1991