Published October 2008 | Version v1
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Prospects for the discovery of 4th family quarks with the ATLAS detector

Creators

  • 1. University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London (United Kingdom)
  • 2. TOBB ETU University, Physics Department, Ankara (Turkey)
  • 3. Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Baku (Azerbaijan)
  • 4. University of California at Irvine, Physics Department, Irvine (United States)
  • 5. CERN, Physics Department, Geneva (Switzerland)

Description

The pair production of heavy fourth-generation quarks, which are predicted under the hypothesis of flavor democracy, is studied using tree-level Monte Carlo generators and fast detector simulation. Two heavy-quark mass values, 500 and 750 GeV, are considered with the assumption that the fourth family mixes primarily with the two light families. It is shown that a clear signature will be observed in the data collected by the ATLAS detector, after the first year of low-luminosity running at the Large Hadron Collider. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0766-4

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0766-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
57
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 621-626
ISSN
1434-6044

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
Germany
INIS RN
40012595
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
ANTIQUARKS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONFIGURATION MIXING; EFFECTIVE MASS; HADRONS; INTEGRAL CROSS SECTIONS; LEPTONIC DECAY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE PRODUCTION; PAIR PRODUCTION; PARTICLE WIDTHS; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS; REST MASS; STANDARD MODEL; TEV RANGE 10-100; THEORETICAL DATA; TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM; W MINUS BOSONS; W PLUS BOSONS
Descriptors DEC
ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; CALCULATION METHODS; CROSS SECTIONS; DATA; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; LINEAR MOMENTUM; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARKS; RADIATIONS; SIMULATION; TEV RANGE; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; WEAK INTERACTIONS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY