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Decays of Fourth Generation Bound States

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-12-05 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We consider the decay modes of the heavy qqˉq^\prime\bar{q^\prime} bound states originating from Higgs boson exchange between quark -- anti-quark pair. In case of a small coupling between the fourth and lower generation the main decay mode is qqˉq^\prime\bar{q^\prime} annihilation. We show that for a vector state the dominant decay modes are Higgs-gamma and Higgs-Z decays, while for a pseudoscalar state the strong two-gluon decay mode dominates. The bound states are very narrow. The ratio of the total width to the binding energy is less than 1% if we are not extremely close to the critical quark mass where the binding energy is very small. The discussed decay modes exist for any fermion-antifermion bound states including heavy leptons and heavy neutrinos if their masses are high enough to form a bound state due to attractive Higgs boson exchange potential.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5634,
  title  = {Decays of Fourth Generation Bound States},
  author = {V. F. Dmitriev and V. V. Flambaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5634},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1204.5403 by other authors