Search for pair production of first generation scalar leptoquarks at CMS

	The quark and lepton sectors of the standard model are strikingly similar in terms of the number of particles and generations. This possibly hints at a fundamental symmetry existing between the two sectors. Indeed, such a symmetry has been part of many new physics scenarios, namely composite models, technicolor, grand unied SU(5), Pati-Salam SU(4) and E6 superstring-inspired theories. These models give rise to an entirely new class of particles called leptoquarks that carry both baryon and lepton numbers - a signature of their coupling to quarks and leptons. We report results from a dedicated search for scalar leptoquarks performed by the CMS experiment using 35.9/fb of proton-proton collision data recorded at 13 TeV.