8-13 August 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone
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Detecting Fourth Generation Heavy Quarks at the LHC

Presented by Dr. David ATWOOD on 11 Aug 2011 from 11:10 to 11:30
Type: Parallel contribution
Track: Beyond the Standard Model

Content

In this talk, I will discuss the production of fourth generation quarks at the LHC. In particular, if such a quark has a mass in the phenomenologically interesting range of 400GeV-600 GeV and decays to a light quark and a W-boson, I will consider a number of possible signals through which it might be detected. In general, the signals I consider include missing momentum together with jets and either a single high-Pt lepton, an opposite sign pair of high-Pt leptons or a same sign pair of high-Pt leptons. In each case I will discuss methods for separating the signal from the three generation Standard Model background. I will show that these methods should allow the detection of heavy fourth generation quarks for a wide range of quark mass and mixing rates.

Summary

I discuss the phenomenology and detection of fourth generation quarks at the LHC.

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Location: Rhode Island Convention Center
Room: Plenary Ballroom

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