2015/06/30 by Koji Ishiwata, Zoltan Ligeti, Mark B. Wise · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep10(2015)027
25 pages, 3 figures, several issues are added, accepted in JHEP
arxiv created 2015/09/15 · arxiv updated 2015/10/09
We study renormalizable extensions of the standard model that contain vector-like fermions in a (single) complex representation of the standard model gauge group. There are 11 models where the vector-like fermions Yukawa couple to the standard model fermions via the Higgs field. These models do not introduce additional fine- tunings. They can lead to, and are constrained by, a number of different flavor- changing processes involving leptons and quarks, as well as direct searches. An interesting feature of the models with strongly interacting vector-like fermions is that constraints from neutral meson mixings (apart from CP violation in neutral kaon mixing) are not sensitive to higher scales than other flavor-changing neutral-current processes. We identify order 1/(4 pi M)2 (where M is the vector-like fermion mass) one-loop contributions to the coefficients of the four-quark operators for meson mixing, that are not suppressed by standard model quark masses and/or mixing angles.