Leptoquark Pair Production at e+e- Linear Colliders: Signals and Background

Abstract

We study pair production of leptoquarks in e+e- annihilation at linear colliders. A detailed simulation including beamstrahlung and initial state radiation, leptoquark decay and hadronization, as well as detector smearing, is performed. Discovery limits are estimated for center-of-mass energies of 500 and 800 GeV. The prospects for determining masses and couplings of leptoquarks are also investigated.

Comments: 25 pages, LaTeX, including 17 postscript figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Joint ECFA/DESY Study on Physics and Detectors for the Linear Collider, Feb - Nov 1996, Ed. R. Settles, DESY 97-123E