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Phys. Rev. D 65, 092004 (2002) [16 pages]

Search for lepton-flavor violation in e+p collisions at DESY HERA

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S. Chekanov et al. (Zeus Collaboration)
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Received 8 January 2002; published 24 April 2002

A search has been made for lepton-flavor-violating interactions of the type e+plX, where l denotes a μ or τ with high transverse momentum, at a center-of-mass energy s of 300 GeV with an integrated luminosity of 47.7 pb-1 using the ZEUS detector at HERA. No evidence was found for lepton-flavor violation and constraints were derived on leptoquarks (LQs) that could mediate such interactions. For LQ masses below s, limits are set on λeq1 βlq, 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 l and a quark. For LQ masses exceeding s, limits are set on the four-fermion contact-interaction term λeqα λlqβ/MLQ2 for leptoquarks that couple to an electron and a quark qα and also to l and a quark qβ. Some of the limits are also applicable to lepton-flavor-violating processes mediated by squarks in R-parity-violating supersymmetric models. In some cases involving heavy quarks and especially for l=τ, the ZEUS limits are the most stringent published to date.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.092004
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.092004
PACS:
13.10.+q, 14.80.Ly