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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)099
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Higgs Physics; Heavy Quark Physics
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- MICINN through the FPU program [FPA2006-05294, FPA2010-17915]
- Junta de Andalucia [FQM 101, FQM 03048, FQM 6552]
- United States National Science Foundation [PHY-0854889]
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New vector-like quarks can mix sizeably with first generation Standard Model quarks without conflicting with current experimental constraints. Searches for such new quarks have been performed in pair production and electroweak single production channels with subsequent decays into electroweak gauge bosons. To fully explore the underlying structure of the theory the channels with heavy quark decays into Higgs bosons are crucial and in this article we consider for the first time the LHC reach for such channels. The two main production mechanisms involve single production of new quarks through the fusion of a vector boson and the Higgs and single production in association with a Higgs boson. We show that both channels have promising reach at the LHC and that they complement the current direct searches involving decays into electroweak gauge bosons.
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