Published August 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

t' searches at the Lhc

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto (Canada)

Description

A minimal joining of electroweak symmetry breaking and flavor physics occurs if a fourth family exists with quark masses in the 600GeV range. Associated with this is the possibility of new flavor interactions accessible at the Lhc, involving a new X gauge boson coupling preferentially to the third and fourth families. T t production yields a high mass peak in the W b invariant-mass spectrum, and we highlight the jet mass technique to identify W jets. X production and decay to τ+τ- also yields a high mass peak, reconstructed from visible decay products and missing pT. Appropriate cuts are essential in both cases to sufficiently reduce the t t background.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica. B, General Physics, Relativity, Astronomy and Mathematical Physics and Methods
Journal Volume
123
Journal Issue
8-9
Journal Page Range
p. 1205-1210
ISSN
1594-9982

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
Italy
INIS RN
41030839
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; CERN LHC; FLAVOR MODEL; QUARKS; SYMMETRY BREAKING
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; COMPOSITE MODELS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; FERMIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS