Study of t-Channel Production of Scalar Leptoquarks at LHCb and Central Acceptance Detector

Scalar leptoquarks are a hypothetical, beyond standard model (BSM) particle that couples simultaneously to both quarks and leptons, carrying both a lepton number and baryon number. These particles provide a possible explanation for the flavor anomalies observed by the LHCb collaboration at CERN as well as by other B-factory experiments. Scalar leptoquarks appear as a propagator in the Drell-Yan process, and scalar leptoquark models with large couplings to heavy quark flavors link flavor anomalies with modifications in Drell-Yan dilepton kinematic distributions. This phenomenological study uses simulated events to examine how the inclusion of scalar leptoquark t-channel production of leptons affects the expected kinematic distributions of the leptons produced and whether a detectable signal could be expected at LHCb or a model Central Acceptance detector.