Experimental HEP Seminar

Search for Heavy Quarks Above the Top at Hadron Colliders

Anupama Atre

FNAL

The discovery of the top quark at the Tevatron completed the three generations of fermions as the fundamental structure of matter fields in the Standard Model (SM). New vector-like quarks with sizable couplings to the SM quarks are a well-motivated extension of the SM, as they naturally appear in many theories beyond the SM. With the large data sample being accumulated, the CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider are in a great position to search for heavier states at the high energy frontier. I will discuss the potential for discovery of heavy quarks above the “top” at hadron colliders.