Beautiful Mirrors at the LHC
Abstract
We explore the "Beautiful Mirrors" model, which aims to explain the measured value of , discrepant at the level. This scenario introduces vector-like quarks which mix with the bottom, subtly affecting its coupling to the . The spectrum of the new particles consists of two bottom-like quarks and a charge -4/3 quark, all of which have electroweak interactions with the third generation. We explore the phenomenology and discovery reach for these new particles at the LHC, exploring single mirror quark production modes whose rates are proportional to the same mixing parameters which resolve the anomaly. We find that for mirror quark masses is required to reasonably establish the scenario and extract the relevant mixing parameters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.4895,
title = {Beautiful Mirrors at the LHC},
author = {Kunal Kumar and William Shepherd and Tim M. P. Tait and Roberto Vega-Morales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4895},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
version to be published in JHEP