• Title of article

    Quarks and leptons beyond the third generation

  • Author/Authors

    Frampton، نويسنده , , Paul H. and Hung، نويسنده , , P.Q. and Sher، نويسنده , , Marc، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    86
  • From page
    263
  • To page
    348
  • Abstract
    The possibility of additional quarks and leptons beyond the three generations already established is discussed. The make-up of this Report is (1) Introduction: the motivations for believing that the present litany of elementary fermions is not complete; (2) quantum numbers: possible assignments for additional fermions; (3) masses and mixing angles: mass limits from precision electroweak data, vacuum stability and perturbative gauge unification; empirical constraints on mixing angles; (4) lifetimes and decay modes: their dependence on the mass spectrum and mixing angles of the additional quarks and leptons; the possibility of exceptionally long lifetimes; (5) dynamical symmetry breaking: the significance of the top quark and other heavy fermions for alternatives to the elementary Higgs Boson; (6) CP violation: extensions to more generations and how strong CP may be solved by additional quarks; (7) experimental searches: present status and future prospects; (8) conclusions.
  • Journal title
    Physics Reports
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Physics Reports
  • Record number

    2191086