Large mass splittings for fourth generation fermions allowed by LHC Higgs exclusion

Details Large mass splittings for fourth generation fermions allowed by LHC Higgs exclusion Large mass splittings for fourth generation fermions allowed by LHC Higgs exclusion

2012-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/1204.3550v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

12 pages, 14 pdf figures, some references and comments added

Scientific paper

In the context of the Standard model with a fourth generation, we explore the allowed mass spectra in the fourth generation quark and lepton sectors as functions of the Higgs mass. Using the constraints from unitarity and oblique parameters, we show that a heavy Higgs allows large mass splittings in these sectors, opening up new decay channels involving W emission. A Higgs heavier than $ \sim 800 GeV $ would in fact necessitate either a heavy quark decay channel t'-> b'W/b'-> t' W or a heavy lepton decay channel \tau' -> \nu' W as long as the mixing between the third and fourth generations is small. This mixing tends to suppress the mass splittings and hence the W-emission channels. The possibility of the W-emission channel could substantially change the search strategies of fourth generation fermions at the LHC and impact the currently reported mass limits.

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