Single Production of Fourth Family b' Quark at the Large Hadron electron Collider

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to produce and detect hypothetical fourth family b' quarks at the LHeC, analyzing signal and background processes across a range of masses to identify discovery prospects.

Contribution

It presents the first detailed analysis of single b' quark production at the LHeC, including background suppression and discovery region estimation.

Findings

Discovery regions identified for b' masses 300-800 GeV.

Optimal Vqb' matrix parametrization enhances detection prospects.

Background processes analyzed to improve signal significance.

Abstract

We examined the single production of fourth family b' quarks at the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC).We have analyzed the background and the signal processes for the mass range 300-800 GeV. We find the discovery region for an optimal parametrization of the Vqb' matrix elements.