Vector-like quarks at the LHC - non standard channels

by Dr Luca Panizzi (Uppsala U.)

Thursday 10 Oct 2019, 15:15 → 16:15 Europe/Stockholm

HUB (Institutionen för teoretisk fysik)

Searches for new vector-like quarks at the LHC by both ATLAS and CMS have set mass bounds above the TeV. These searches, however, usually rely on a set of assumptions about the properties of such quarks. After discussing these assumptions, I will show how it is possible to explore different scenarios by relaxing some of them. I will focus in particular on vector-like quarks with large width, the role of NLO corrections for single production, and the possibility that vector-like quarks decay into new scalar exotic states.