Search for Leptoquarks, Excited Leptons and Technicolor at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential for the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC to discover new physics phenomena such as leptoquarks, excited leptons, and Technicolor particles, with specific luminosity requirements for each.

Contribution

It provides studies estimating the luminosity needed for potential discoveries of leptoquarks, Technicolor particles, and excited electrons at the LHC.

Findings

Leptoquarks could be discovered with 100 pb^-1 of data.

Technicolor particles could be observed with 4 fb^-1.

Excited electrons might be detected with 300 fb^-1.

Abstract

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will soon search for physics phenomena that are not predicted by the Standard Model. Technicolor, Compositeness and GUT-based models are rich in high-pt leptons and could be studied in such final states. This contribution shows studies that indicate that a 5sigma discovery of a 500 GeV leptoquark could occur with 100 pb^-1 of integrated luminosity, Technicolor predicted particles could be seen with 4 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity and, excited electron could be detected with 300 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity.