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A clean signal for a top-like isosinglet fermion at the Large Hadron Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

We predict a clean signal at the Large Hadron Collider (s)\sqrt s)=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 bbˉb\bar{b} channel, there can be a rather distinct and background-free signal that can unveil the existence of the vectorlike isosinglet quark of this kind.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2885,
  title  = {A clean signal for a top-like isosinglet fermion at the Large Hadron Collider},
  author = {Aarti Girdhar and Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2885},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables