Search for lepton-flavor violation in e+p collisions at HERA
arXiv:hep-ex/0201003 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.092004
Abstract
A search has been made for lepton-flavor-violating interactions, e+ p -> mu/tau X, at a center-of-mass energy 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 that could mediate such interactions. Some of the constraints 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 the tau channel, the ZEUS constraints are the most stringent published to date.
36 pages, 7 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D
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