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A Rationale for Long-lived Quarks and Leptons at the LHC: Low Energy Flavour Theory | O. J. P. Eboli
; C. A. Savoy
; R. Zukanovich Funchal
; | Date: |
21 Dec 2011 | Abstract: | In the framework of gauged flavour symmetries, new fermions in parity
symmetric representations of the standard model are generically needed for the
compensation of mixed anomalies. The key point is that their masses are also
protected by flavour symmetries and some of them are expected to lie way below
the flavour symmetry breaking scale(s), which has to occur many orders of
magnitude above the electroweak scale to be compatible with the available data
from flavour changing neutral currents and CP violation experiments. We argue
that, actually, some of these fermions would plausibly get masses within the
LHC range. If they are taken to be heavy quarks and leptons, in
(bi)-fundamental representations of the standard model symmetries, their
mixings with the light ones are strongly constrained to be very small by
electroweak precision data. The alternative chosen here is to exactly forbid
such mixings by breaking of flavour symmetries into an exact discrete symmetry,
the so-called proton-hexality, primarily suggested to avoid proton decay. As a
consequence of the large value needed for the flavour breaking scale, those
heavy particles are long-lived and rather appropriate for the current and
future searches at the LHC for quasi-stable hadrons and leptons. In fact, the
LHC experiments have already started to look for them. | Source: | arXiv, 1112.5108 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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