A Vector-Like Fourth Generation with A Discrete Symmetry From Split-UED

Journal Article · Fri Aug 19 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · JHEP 1007:059,2010

OSTI ID:1022491

Kong, Kyoungchul; Park, Seong Chan; Rizzo, Thomas G

Split-UED allows for the possibility that the lowest lying KK excitations of the Standard Model fermions can be much lighter than the corresponding gauge or Higgs KK states. This can happen provided the fermion bulk masses are chosen to be large, in units of the inverse compactification radius, 1/R, and negative. In this setup, all of the other KK states would be effectively decoupled from low energy physics. Such a scenario would then lead to an apparent vector-like fourth generation with an associated discrete symmetry that allows us to accommodate a dark matter candidate. In this paper the rather unique phenomenology presented by this picture will be examined.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1022491
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-14049; arXiv:1004.4635; TRN: US1104244
• Journal Information: JHEP 1007:059,2010, Journal Name: JHEP 1007:059,2010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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