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    Fourth SM Family Manifestations at CLIC

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    The latest electroweak precision data allow the existence of additional chiral generations in the standard model. We study prospects of search for the fourth standard model family fermions and quarkonia at e+e−e^{+}e^{-} and γγ\gamma \gamma options of CLIC. It is shown that CLIC will be powerfull machine for discovery and investigation of both fourth family leptons and quarkonia. Moreover, the formation of the fourth family quarkonia will give a new opportunity to investigate Higgs boson properties.Comment: 7 pages, 6 Table

    Perfect fluid solutions of Brans-Dicke and f(R)cosmology

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    Brans-Dicke cosmology with an (inverse) power-law potential is revisited in the light of modern quintessence and inflation models. A simple ansatz relating scale factor and scalar field recovers most of the known solutions and generates new ones. A phase space interpretation of the ansatz is provided and these universes are mapped into solutions of f(R) cosmology.Comment: Appendix added for completeness, explanation added in the text, bibliography expanded, figures upgraded for better resolution. Matches version accepted in Annals of Physic

    The Fourth SM Family Neutrino at Future Linear Colliders

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    It is known that Flavor Democracy favors the existence of the fourth standard model (SM) family. In order to give nonzero masses for the first three family fermions Flavor Democracy has to be slightly broken. A parametrization for democracy breaking, which gives the correct values for fundamental fermion masses and, at the same time, predicts quark and lepton CKM matrices in a good agreement with the experimental data, is proposed. The pair productions of the fourth SM family Dirac (ν4)(\nu_{4}) and Majorana (N1)(N_{1}) neutrinos at future linear colliders with s=500\sqrt{s}=500 GeV, 1 TeV and 3 TeV are considered. The cross section for the process e+e−→ν4ν4ˉ(N1N1)e^{+}e^{-}\to\nu_{4}\bar {\nu_{4}}(N_{1}N_{1}) and the branching ratios for possible decay modes of the both neutrinos are determined. The decays of the fourth family neutrinos into muon channels (ν4(N1)→μ±W∓)(\nu_{4}(N_{1})\to\mu^{\pm}W^{\mp}) provide cleanest signature at e+e−e^{+}e^{-} colliders. Meanwhile, in our parametrization this channel is dominant. WW bosons produced in decays of the fourth family neutrinos will be seen in detector as either di-jets or isolated leptons. As an example we consider the production of 200 GeV mass fourth family neutrinos at s=500\sqrt{s}=500 GeV linear colliders by taking into account di-muon plus four-jet events as signatures.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, 10 table
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