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A search for leptoquarks and squarks at HERA

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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A search in the H1 experiment at HERA for scalar and vector leptoquarks, leptogluons and squarks coupling to first generation fermions is presented in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 425 nb−1. For masses ranging up to ∼275 GeV, no significant evidence for the direct production of such particles is found in various possible decay channels. At high masses and beyond the centre of mass energy of 296 GeV a contact interaction analysis is used to further constrain the couplings and masses of new vector leptoquarks and to set lower limits on compositeness scales.

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Supported by the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie, FRG under contract numbers 6AC17P, 6AC47P, 6DO571, 6HH17P, 6HH271, 6HD171, 6HD271, 6KH7P, 6MP171, and 6WT87P

Supported by the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, and formerly by the UK Science and Engineering Research Council

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Supported by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research, grant No. 204209101

Supported in part by USDOE grant DE F603 91ER40674

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Supported by GA ČR, grant no. 202/93/2423 and by GA AV ČR, grant no. 19095

Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation

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Hl Collaboration., Ahmed, T., Aid, S. et al. A search for leptoquarks and squarks at HERA. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 64, 545–558 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01957769

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