2021/03/15 by Ali Osman Acar, Acar, Ali Osman, Osman Emre Delialioglu +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.08222
openalex publication_date 2021/03/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Flavor Democracy Hypothesis favors existence of iso-singlet quarks and vector-like charged leptons. Their observation at future colliders could shed light on the nature of mass and mixing patterns of known leptons and quarks, as well as Higgs boson itself. Vector-like quarks are extensively searched by ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Unfortunately, this is not the case for vector-like leptons, while they have actually similar status from phenomenology viewpoint. We argue that vector-like charged leptons should be included into the new physics search programs of future energy frontier colliders. It is shown that pair production at the HE-LHC with decay of one of the leptons to Ze and another to He channel, followed by H → bb and Z → μμdecays will give opportunity to scan masses of iso-singlet and iso-doublet charged leptons up to 0.9 TeV and 1.5 TeV, respectively. FCC will extend this region up to 2 TeV for iso-singlet and 3.6 TeV for iso-doublet charged leptons.