Experimental signatures for a model of generations of quarks and leptons

by Greenberg, O. W. (University of Maryland)

Thursday 11 Jan 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

I will describe a composite model with exactly three generations of quarks and leptons. The observable consequences of this model include (1) heavy quarks and leptons that will have two-body decays with no missing energy, (2) a new scenario for the Higgs meson in which the Higgs decay rates are no longer connected to the quark masses, (3) reduction by a factor of three in the cross section for e^+ e^- to hadrons at high energy, and (4) a new candidate for dark matter. The standard model gauge bosons will not couple directly to the quarks and leptons, but instead will couple indirectly via one of the constituents.