Jets and heavy quarks in hadron-hadron collisions

The top quark is the one fundamental fermion that is missing in the standard or minimal model of the electro-weak interactions. One should also bear in mind the possibility of discovering new generations of heavy quarks at high energies. It seems reasonable to try to anticipate some of the problems and physics opportunities connected with the discovery and study of heavy quarks that could be produced in the next generation of high energy machines. It is clearly important to examine the possible decays of new heavy quarks (or for that matter any new particle) in order to develop signatures. The decays of heavy fermions (presumably within heavy mesons) ought to yield resolvable jet-like structure which can be used as a signature as well as providing opportunities to study these decays