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The Leptoquark Hunter's Guide: Large Coupling
Leptoquarks have recently received much attention especially because they may
provide an explanation to the and anomalies in rare
meson decays. In a previous paper we proposed a systematic search strategy
for all possible leptoquark flavors by focusing on leptoquark pair production.
In this paper, we extend this strategy to large (order unity) leptoquark
couplings which offer new search opportunities: single leptoquark production
and -channel leptoquark exchange with dilepton final states. We discuss the
unique features of the different search channels and show that they cover
complementary regions of parameter space. We collect and update all currently
available bounds for the different flavor final states from LHC searches and
from atomic parity violation measurements. As an application of our analysis,
we find that current limits do not exclude the leptoquark explanation of the
physics anomalies but that the high luminosity run of the LHC will reach
the most interesting parameter space.Comment: 33 pages + references, 15 figures, 9 tables, v2: references adde
Hamiltonian lattice quantum chromodynamics at finite density with Wilson fermions
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at sufficiently high density is expected to
undergo a chiral phase transition. Understanding such a transition is of
particular importance for neutron star or quark star physics. In Lagrangian
SU(3) lattice gauge theory, the standard approach breaks down at large chemical
potential , due to the complex action problem. The Hamiltonian formulation
of lattice QCD doesn't encounter such a problem. In a previous work, we
developed a Hamiltonian approach at finite chemical potential and
obtained reasonable results in the strong coupling regime. In this paper, we
extend the previous work to Wilson fermions. We study the chiral behavior and
calculate the vacuum energy, chiral condensate and quark number density, as
well as the masses of light hadrons. There is a first order chiral phase
transition at zero temperature.Comment: 23 pages. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review
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