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Description
Leptoquarks could naturally explain the relation between the quark and lepton sectors in terms of both the ordering and electric charge, the latter a result of SM fermions and leptoquarks being composed of common elementary constituents, or motivated by grand unified theories, in which quarks and leptons appear in common multiplets relating their charges and giving rise to transitions mediated by leptoquarks. Leptoquarks coupling to third-generation particles would invoke processes that coherently yield a good description of excesses seen in heavy-flavor data, and are expected to be produced singly, in pairs, and exchanged in t-channel processes at the LHC. In this contribution, we will overview the CMS leptoquark program, with a particular focus on third-generation leptoquark searches.
