signature=4ec1b15ec2386dee3bd1a9eafafc0b3a,CiteSeerX — EFI-03-37 EXOTIC Q = −1/3 QUARK SIGNATURES...

Abstract

Isosinglet vector-like quarks are predicted by some unified theories of electroweak and strong interactions. We study hadron collider signatures for the production and decay of isosinglet vector-like quarks with charge −1/3. Previous analyses of Run I data from the Fermilab Tevatron are used to set lower limits of 100–200 GeV/c 2 on the mass of such quarks, depending on assumptions about mixing with Standard Model quarks and the mass of the Higgs boson. For future Tevatron data (Ec.m. = 1.96 TeV) the corresponding mass range is (100–270, 100–320) GeV/c 2 for (1, 10) fb −1. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Ec.m. = 14 TeV, 100 fb −1), an analysis of flavor-changing neutral-current decay modes should probe an h quark mass range of 100–1100 GeV/c 2. 1