Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV with the CMS Detector

A search is presented for production of both first and second generation scalar leptoquarks with a final state of either two electrons and one jet or two muons and one jet. The data collected were pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV recorded by the CMS detector, corresponding to $19.6$ fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. Limits are set at 95\% CL on both the first and second generation leptoquark production cross sections $\sigma$ as a function of the leptoquark mass and the leptoquark coupling $\lambda$ to a lepton and a quark. These results are compared with theoretical predictions to obtain lower limits on the mass of the leptoquark.