H1prelim-05-163

Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in ep Collisions at HERA

Reference Preliminary results expected for EPS 2005 (new = e- data), Summer 2005
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Contact L Lindfeld, M Ismail
Abstract A search for lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes mediated by leptoquarks (LQ) is performed with the H1 experiment at HERA. Final states with a muon or a tau and a hadronic jet are searched for in e^+p and e^-p data samples collected in the period 1998-2000 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79 pb^-1. No evidence for LFV is found. Limits are derived on the Yukawa coupling of LQs to a muon or tau and a light quark, lambda_{mu q, tau q}, in the Buchmueller-Rueckl-Wyler effective model, as well as on the branching ratio, BR_{LQ -> mu q, tau q}, for the LQ decaying to a muon or tau and a light quark.
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