Physics of leptoquarks in precision experiments and at particle colliders

I Doršner, S Fajfer, A Greljo, JF Kamenik, N Košnik - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive review of physics effects generated by leptoquarks (LQs), ie,
hypothetical particles that can turn quarks into leptons and vice versa, of either scalar or …

Probing exotic phenomena at the interface of nuclear and particle physics with the electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms: A unique window to hadronic and …

N Yamanaka, BK Sahoo, N Yoshinaga, T Sato… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
The current status of electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms which involves the
synergy between atomic experiments and three different theoretical areas, ie particle …

B-physics anomalies: a guide to combined explanations

D Buttazzo, A Greljo, G Isidori, D Marzocca - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by additional experimental hints of Lepton Flavour Universality violation
in B decays, both in charged-and in neutral-current processes, we analyse the ingredients …

Parton distribution functions, , and heavy-quark masses for LHC Run II

S Alekhin, J Blümlein, S Moch, R Plačakytė - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We determine a new set of parton distribution functions (ABMP16), the strong coupling
constant α s and the quark masses mc, mb and mt in a global fit to next-to-next-to-leading …

Lepton universality violation with lepton flavor conservation in B-meson decays

R Alonso, B Grinstein, JM Camalich - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract Anomalies in semileptonic B-meson decays present interesting patterns that might
be revealing the shape of the new physics to come. Under the assumption that neutrino and …

Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the M_ T2 MT 2 variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton–proton collisions …

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
Two related searches for phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM) are performed
using events with hadronic jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance. The results …

Composite leptoquarks and anomalies in B-meson decays

B Gripaios, M Nardecchia, SA Renner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We attempt to explain recent anomalies in semileptonic B decays at LHCb via a
composite Higgs model, in which both the Higgs and an SU (2) L-triplet leptoquark arise as …

The leptoquark Hunter's guide: Pair production

B Diaz, M Schmaltz, YM Zhong - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Leptoquarks occur in many new physics scenarios and could be the next big
discovery at the LHC. The purpose of this paper is to point out that a model-independent …

B-decay anomalies in a composite leptoquark model

R Barbieri, CW Murphy, F Senia - The European Physical Journal C, 2017 - Springer
The collection of a few anomalies in semileptonic B-decays, especially in b → c τ ̄ ν b→ c τ
ν¯, invites to speculate about the emergence of some striking new phenomena, perhaps …

The leptoquark Hunter's guide: large coupling

M Schmaltz, YM Zhong - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract Leptoquarks have recently received much attention especially because they may
provide an explanation to the\({R} _ {D^{\left (*\right)}}\kern0. 5em\mathrm {and}\kern0. 5em …