Production of mirror fermions via $e\gamma$ and $ep$ collisions in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity

TL;DR

This paper investigates the production of mirror fermions predicted by the littlest Higgs model with T-parity at future collider experiments, showing they can be produced copiously and calculating relevant production rates.

Contribution

It presents the first detailed analysis of mirror quark production via $e\gamma$ and $ep$ collisions within the LHT model, including decay modes and production rates.

Findings

Mirror quarks can be produced copiously at ILC and THERA.

Production rates are significant across a wide parameter space.

Decay modes of mirror quarks are analyzed for collider signals.

Abstract

One of the important features of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity, called the $LHT$ model, is that it introduces the mirror fermions, which are the T-parity partners of the standard model fermions. In this paper, we discuss production of the mirror quark associated with mirror neutrino via $e\gamma$ and $ep$ collisions. We find that, in wide range of the parameter space, the mirror quark can be copiously produced at the International $e^{+}e^{-}$ Linear Collider $(ILC)$ and $ep$ collider $(THERA)$ experiments. The production rates of certain signal events, which are related the main two-body decay modes of the mirror quark, are also calculated.