e+ e- Annihilation into Hadrons at LEP2 in the Presence of the Anomalous DESY Positron-Jet Event Phenomenon

Abstract

We discuss the allowed parameter regime in the coupling-mass plane implied by the existing LEP2 data on e+ e- -> hadrons at 172.3 GeV for the leptoquark interpretation of the anomalous DESY positron-jet events for four different models of the leptoquark charges and chiral couplings to quarks, for both a loose cut on s'/s and a tight cut on s'/s. We find that this interpretation of the DESY phenomenon is still consistent with the LEP2 data although, for vector leptoquarks, a significant regime of the relevant parameter space is already excluded.