The Leptoquark Implication from the CMS and IceCube Experiments

TL;DR

This paper explores how a 600-650 GeV leptoquark could explain recent CMS excesses and IceCube PeV neutrino events, linking collider signals with astrophysical observations.

Contribution

It proposes a leptoquark model with specific flavor couplings that connects collider anomalies to high-energy neutrino observations, providing testable predictions.

Findings

CMS signals favor large couplings to third-generation leptons

Enhanced $ u_\tau$-nucleon scattering cross-section at PeV energies

Potential for future LHC tests of the leptoquark Yukawa couplings

Abstract

The recent excess in the CMS measurements of $eejj$ and $e\nu jj$ channels and the emergence of PeV comsic neutrino events at the IceCube experiment share an intriguing implication for a leptoquark with a 600-650 GeV mass. We investigate the CMS constraints on the flavor structure of a scenario with the minimal leptoquark Yukawa couplings and correlate such a scenario to the resonant enhancement in the very high energy shower event rates at the IceCube. We find for a single leptoquark, the CMS signals require large couplings to the third generation leptons. This leads to an enhancement in the $\nu_\tau$-nucleon scattering cross-section and subsequently more $\nu_\tau$ events at PeV energies. However, a visible enhancement above the Standard Model scattering would require a leptoquark Yukawa coupling larger than one that can be easily tested at the upcoming LHC runs.