Prospects and constraints for vector-like MFV matter at LHC
Abstract
We examine the prospects for LHC discovery of SU(2)_L singlet vector-like quarks that obey Minimal Flavour Violation (MFV) and are consistent with lower energy phenomenology. We study models where the vector-like quarks have the same quantum numbers as u_R or d_R, allowing mixing, which generally leads to significant low energy constraints. We find that at leading order in the MFV expansion there are two naturally phenomenologically viable MFV models of this type when the Weyl spinor components of the vector-like quarks are flavour triplets. We examine direct production bounds, flavour and electroweak precision data constraints for these models and determine the cross section for allowed values of the model parameters at LHC. For the models we identify as naturally phenomenologically viable, large amounts of parameter space afford a significant early discovery reach at LHC while being consistent with lower energy phenomenology.
Additional Information
© 2010 SISSA. Received: May 28, 2010; Revised: June 28, 2010; Accepted: July 27, 2010; Published: August 11, 2010. We thank Mark Wise for inspiration and comments on the manuscript. M.T. thanks Maxim Pospelov for useful discussions. Research at the Perimeter Institute is supported in part by the Government of Canada through NSERC and by the Provice of Ontario through MEDT.Additional details
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- 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)059
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20101111-092709153
- Government of Canada through Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Province of Ontario through Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT)
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