A Search for Leptoquarks Coupling to τ Leptons and Bottom Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at the CMS Experiment

Abstract

Despite the many remarkable successes of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, there are both theoretical and experimental reasons that imply the SM is not the final and most fundamental theory of nature. Some anomalies have emerged in measurements of semileptonic B hadron decays that could reveal the violation of lepton flavor universality. Models that propose a new particle called the leptoquark (LQ) are strongly motivated as a possible explanation, and could reveal the underlying connection between quarks and leptons and exp Show more