3-3-1 exotic quark search at CERN LEPII-LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the production and decay of exotic quarks predicted by the 3-3-1 model at CERN LEPII-LHC, estimating event rates and analyzing angular distributions to explore potential signals of new physics.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of exotic quark production and decay within the 3-3-1 model at collider energies, including event rate estimates and angular distribution studies.

Findings

Estimated 20 to 750 events per year for typical parameters.

Angular distributions offer potential signatures for exotic quark detection.

Highlights the collider's capability to probe 3-3-1 model predictions.

Abstract

The 3-3-1 electroweak model is the simplest chiral extension of the standard model which predicts single and double charged bileptons and exotic quarks carrying -4/3 and 5/3 units of the positron charge. In this paper we study the possibilities of the production and decay of one of these exotic quarks at CERN LEPII-LHC collider. For typical vector bilepton, exotic quark masses and mixing angles we obtained between 20 and 750 events per year. Angular distributions are also presented.