Adam Lux: Search for Resonant Production of Leptoquarks with Final State Muon + Jet with the ATLAS Detector

Leptoquarks are hypothetical particles that are motivated by the apparent symmetry between the quark and lepton sectors of the Standard Model. Leptoquarks could explain certain anomalies seen in B-meson decays and the muon magnetic moment. In this seminar, I will describe the status of a search for leptoquarks with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This search targets a novel production mode for leptoquark searches at the LHC: resonant production of leptoquarks that relies on the lepton content of the proton. I will describe my contributions to the search for resonant leptoquark production in the muon + jet final state, and present expected limits on the coupling of leptoquarks to a muon and a strange quark as a function of leptoquark mass.