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We introduce a novel mechanism for the leptoquark pair production at LHC that is of a t-channel topology and is quark-quark initiated. This mechanism operates under fairly general conditions. One of them is that the two leptoquarks in question couple to the same lepton and the other one is that the fermion numbers of these two leptoquarks differ by two. The strength of the proposed mechanism provides an alternative way to the conventional processes to efficiently constrain the parameter space of the two leptoquark scenarios at LHC whenever the aforementioned conditions are met. We accordingly present one case study to outline the physics potential of this novel production mechanism.
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Doršner, I., Fajfer, S. & Lejlić, A. Novel leptoquark pair production at LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 167 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2021)167
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