LHC Signatures of Warped-space Vectorlike Quarks

Jun 11, 2013
44 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2014) 079
  • Published: 2014
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the LHC signatures of TeV scale vectorlike quarks bb', tt' and χ\chi with electromagnetic charges -1/3, 2/3 and 5/3 that appear in many beyond the standard model (BSM) extensions. We consider warped extra-dimensional models and analyze the phenomenology of such vectorlike quarks that are the custodial partners of third generation quarks. In addition to the usually studied pair-production channels which depend on the strong coupling, we put equal emphasis on single production channels that depend on electroweak couplings and on electroweak symmetry breaking induced mixing effects between the heavy vectorlike quarks and standard model quarks. We identify new promising gggg-initiated pair and single production channels and find the luminosity required for discovering these states at the LHC. For these channels, we propose a cut that allows one to extract the relevant electroweak couplings. Although the motivation is from warped models, we present many of our results model-independently.
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  • Published version. 40 pages, 19 figures, 12 tables. References added. Minor revisions
  • Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
  • Hadronic Colliders
  • family: 3
  • electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
  • model: higher-dimensional
  • scale: TeV
  • new physics
  • quark
  • CERN LHC Coll
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