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A clean signal for a top-like isosinglet fermion at the Large Hadron Collider
We predict a clean signal at the Large Hadron Collider (=14 TeV for
a scenario where there is a top-like, charge +2/3 vectorlike isosinglet
fermion. Such a quark, via mixing with the standard model top, can undergo
decays via both flavour-changing Z-boson coupling and flavour-changing Yukawa
interactions. We concentrate on the latter channel, and study the situation
where, following its pair-production, the heavy quark pair gives rise to two
tops and two Higgs boson. We show that the case where each Higgs decays in the
channel, there can be a rather distinct and background-free signal
that can unveil the existence of the vectorlike isosinglet quark of this kind.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, 4 table
MeV sterile neutrinos in low reheating temperature cosmological scenarios
It is commonly assumed that the cosmological and astrophysical bounds on the
mixings of sterile with active neutrinos are much more stringent than those
obtained from laboratory measurements. We point out that in scenarios with a
very low reheating temperature T_RH << 100 MeV at the end of (the last episode
of) inflation or entropy creation, the abundance of sterile neutrinos becomes
largely suppressed with respect to that obtained within the standard framework.
Thus, in this case cosmological bounds become much less stringent than usually
assumed, allowing sterile neutrinos to be ``visible'' in future experiments.
Here, we concentrate on massive (mostly sterile) neutrinos heavier than 1 MeV.Comment: 14 pp, 7 fig
Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron
We show that a top-prime quark as heavy as 600 GeV can be discovered at the
Tevatron, provided it is resonantly pair-produced via a vector color octet. If
the top-prime originates from a vectorlike quark, then the production of a
single top-prime in association with a top may also be observable, even through
its decay into a Higgs boson and a top. A color octet with mass of about 1 TeV,
which decays into a top-prime pair, may account for the CDF excess of
semileptonic (Wj)(Wj) events.Comment: 22 pages, 6 ps figures. v2: Note added about the new D0 search for
(Wb)(Wb) resonances; section 4.1 expanded; single-top constraint updated in
section 2; references adde
TeV-scale seesaw mechanism catalyzed by the electron mass
We construct a model in which the neutrino Dirac mass terms are of order the
electron mass and the seesaw mechanism proceeds via right-handed neutrinos with
masses of order TeV. In our model the spectra of the three light and of the
three heavy neutrinos are closely related. Since the mixing between light and
heavy neutrinos is small, the model predicts no effects in pp and p \bar p
colliders. Possible signatures of the model are the lepton-number-violating
process e- e- --> H- H-, where H- is a charged scalar particle,
lepton-flavour-violating decays like mu- --> e- e+ e-, or a sizable
contribution to the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon.Comment: 13 pages, one figure, matches published versio
Model-Independent Searches for New Quarks at the LHC
New vector-like quarks can have sizable couplings to first generation quarks
without conflicting with current experimental constraints. The coupling with
valence quarks and unique kinematics make single production the optimal
discovery process. We perform a model-independent analysis of the discovery
reach at the Large Hadron Collider for new vector-like quarks considering
single production and subsequent decays via electroweak interactions. An early
LHC run with 7 TeV center of mass energy and 1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity
can probe heavy quark masses up to 1 TeV and can be competitive with the
Tevatron reach of 10 fb-1. The LHC with 14 TeV center of mass energy and 100
fb-1 of integrated luminosity can probe heavy quark masses up to 3.7 TeV for
order one couplings.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figures, 7 table
Search for light custodians in a clean decay channel at the LHC
Models of warped extra dimensions with custodial symmetry usually predict the
existence of a light Kaluza-Klein fermion arising as a partner of the
right-handed top quark, sometimes called light custodians which we will denote
. The production of these particles at the LHC can give rise to
multi-W events which could be observed in same-sign dilepton channels, but its
mass reconstruction is challenging. In this letter we study the possibility of
finding a signal for the pair production of this new particle at the LHC
focusing on a rarer, but cleaner decay mode of a light custodian into a
boson and a -quark. In this mode it would be possible to reconstruct the
light custodian mass.
In addition to the dominant standard model QCD production processes, we
include the contribution of a Kaluza-Klein gluon first mode. We find that the
stands out from the background as a peak in the invariant
mass. However, when taking into account only the electronic and muonic decay
modes of the boson and tagging efficiencies, the LHC will have access
only to the very light range of masses, GeV.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Heavy-light decay topologies as a new strategy to discover a heavy gluon
We study the collider phenomenology of the lightest Kaluza-Klein excitation
of the gluon, G*, in theories with a warped extra dimension. We do so by means
of a two-site effective lagrangian which includes only the lowest-lying spin-1
and spin-1/2 resonances. We point out the importance of the decays of G* to one
SM plus one heavy fermion, that were overlooked in the previous literature. It
turns out that, when kinematically allowed, such heavy-light decays are
powerful channels for discovering the G*. In particular, we present a
parton-level Montecarlo analysis of the final state Wtb that follows from the
decay of G* to one SM top or bottom quark plus its heavy partner. We find that
at \sqrt{s} = 7 TeV and with 10 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity, the LHC can
discover a KK gluon with mass in the range M_{G*} = (1.8 - 2.2) TeV if its
coupling to a pair of light quarks is g_{G*qqbar} = (0.2-0.5) g_3. The same
process is also competitive for the discovery of the top and bottom partners as
well. We find, for example, that the LHC at \sqrt{s} = 7 TeV can discover a 1
TeV KK bottom quark with an integrated luminosity of (5.3 - 0.61) fb^{-1} for
g_{G*qqbar} = (0.2-0.5) g_3.Comment: 36 pages, 13 figures. v2: a few typos corrected, comments added,
version published in JHE
New Higgs Production Mechanism in Composite Higgs Models
Composite Higgs models are only now starting to be probed at the Large Hadron
Collider by Higgs searches. We point out that new resonances, abundant in these
models, can mediate new production mechanisms for the composite Higgs. The new
channels involve the exchange of a massive color octet and single production of
new fermion resonances with subsequent decays into the Higgs and a Standard
Model quark. The sizable cross section and very distinctive kinematics allow
for a very clean extraction of the signal over the background with high
statistical significance. Heavy gluon masses up to 2.8 TeV can be probed with
data collected during 2012 and up to 5 TeV after the energy upgrade to
TeV.Comment: 27 pages, 22 figures. V2: typos corrected, matches published versio
Long Lived Fourth Generation and the Higgs
A chiral fourth generation is a simple and well motivated extension of the
standard model, and has important consequences for Higgs phenomenology. Here we
consider a scenario where the fourth generation neutrinos are long lived and
have both a Dirac and Majorana mass term. Such neutrinos can be as light as 40
GeV and can be the dominant decay mode of the Higgs boson for Higgs masses
below the W-boson threshold. We study the effect of the Majorana mass term on
the Higgs branching fractions and reevaluate the Tevatron constraints on the
Higgs mass. We discuss the prospects for the LHC to detect the semi-invisible
Higgs decays into fourth generation neutrino pairs. Under the assumption that
the lightest fourth generation neutrino is stable, it's thermal relic density
can be up to 20% of the observed dark matter density in the universe. This is
in agreement with current constraints on the spin dependent neutrino-neutron
cross section, but can be probed by the next generation of dark matter direct
detection experiments.Comment: v1: 19 pages, 5 figures; v2: References added; v3: version to appear
in JHE
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