Speaker
Description
For several decades the Standard Model of particle physics has been
the best description of the elementary particles and their
interactions but it wasn't until the Higgs boson discovery in 2012
that the missing piece of the Standard Model puzzle was found.
Nonetheless some questions remain unanswered. One of them is the
hierarchy problem and several nonsupersymmetric theories trying to
solve it share the existence vectorlike quarks, new heavy quarks
with the same transformation rules for the left and right chirality
under the SU(2) group of the Standard Model. Since they are a common
feature in different BSM models they are a natural target to be
considered. In this poster the different ATLAS searches for vector‐
like quarks using protonproton collision in the LHC collider will be
reviewed. The different analysis strategies and the interpretation
of the obtained results will be discussed.
