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Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-06-19 v2

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.0902.0792,
  title  = {Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron},
  author = {Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Kyoungchul Kong and Rakhi Mahbubani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0792},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

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 added

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