Collider Cross Talk

Vector-Like Fermions: motivations, experimental signatures and search strategies

Name: Vector-Like Fermions: motivations, experimental signatures and search strategies
Start: 2015-10-29T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-10-29T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Adrian Carmona Bermudez (CERN), Clement Helsens (CERN)

Thursday 29 Oct 2015, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

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Description

After the Higgs boson discovery, naturalness remains an open question. Among the various BSM proposal, the existence of Vector-Like Fermions that permit a SM gauge invariant Dirac mass term is particularly interesting to mitigates the naturalness problem. For example a Vector-Like top quark would be a key ingredient in certain models with dynamical electro-weak symmetry breaking. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have performed an extensive program of searches for Vector-Like fermions during LHC Run I. Today we will review the theoretical motivations, the experimental signatures and search strategies of Vector-Like fermions and discuss the improvements towards Run II.