2010/05/31 by M. Ö. Sahin, M. Sahin, S. Sultansoy +2 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Geography #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Tevatron #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.82.051503
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 82(5) (American Physical Society) · 8 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2010/07/31 · openalex publication_date 2010/09/10 · arxiv updated 2014/11/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The flavor democracy hypothesis predicts the existence of the fourth standard model family. Because of the high masses of the fourth family quarks, their anomalous decays could be dominant if certain criteria are met. This will drastically change the search strategy at hadron colliders. We show that the fourth standard model family down quarks with masses up to 400--450 GeV can be observed (or excluded) via anomalous decays by Tevatron.