The rise and fall of the fourth quark-lepton generation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-12-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The existence of the fourth quark-lepton generation is not excluded by the electroweak precision data. However, the recent results on the 126 GeV higgs boson production and decay do not allow an extra generation at least as far as the perturbation theory can be used.
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@article{arxiv.1312.0474,
title = {The rise and fall of the fourth quark-lepton generation},
author = {M. I. Vysotsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0474},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Report at the conference QTHEP 2013, Repino, June 23-30 2013 and lecture at the 2013 Helmholz School Physics of Heavy Quarks and Hadrons, Dubna, July 15-28. An important acknowledgement is added