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Scalar leptoquarks, with baryon and lepton number conserving interactions, could have TeV scale masses, and be produced at colliders or contribute to a wide variety of rare decays. In pursuit of some insight as to the most sensitive search channels, we assume that the leptoquark-lepton-quark coupling can be constructed from the known mass matrices. We estimate the rates for selected rare processes in three cases: leptoquarks carrying lepton and quark flavour, leptoquarks with quark flavour only, and unflavoured leptoquarks. We find that leptoquark decay to top quarks is an interesting search channel.
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Davidson, S., Descotes-Genon, S. “Minimal Flavour Violation” for leptoquarks. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 73 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2010)073
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