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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 85, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.054001
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- US DOE [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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We examine loop-mediated effects of new heavy quarks Q = (t', b') on t (t) over bar production at hadron colliders, using a phenomenological model with flavor off-diagonal couplings of charged and neutral scalars phi = (phi(+/-); phi(0)) to Q. We show that an invariant-mass-dependent asymmetry, in the t (t) over bar center of mass, consistent with those recently reported by the CDF collaboration, can be obtained for quark masses around 350-500 GeV, scalar masses of order 100-200 GeV, and modest-to-strong Yukawa couplings. The requisite strong interactions suggest a nonperturbative electroweak-symmetry-breaking mechanism and composite states at the weak scale. A typical prediction of this framework is that the new heavy quarks decay dominantly into t phi final states.
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