Bounds on scalar leptoquark masses from S, T, U parameters in the minimal four-color quark-lepton symmetry model

Abstract

The contributions into radiative correction parameters S, T, U from the scalar leptoquarks are calculated in the minimal gauge model with the four-color quark-lepton symmetry. It is shown that the contributions into T and U from the scalar leptoquark doublets are not positive definite. Using the current experimental data on S, T, U the bounds on the scalar leptoquark masses are obtained. In particular, the existence of the relatively light scalar leptoquark with electric charge 2/3 is shown to be compatible with the current experimental data on S, T, U.

Comments: 14 pages, 3 ps figures, LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B