Searches for the $t^{\prime }$ of a fourth family

Abstract

We study the detection of the $t^{\prime }$ of a fourth family during the early running of LHC with 7 TeV collision energy and 1 fb${}^{-1}$ integrated luminosity. By use of a neural network we show that it is feasible to search for the $t^{\prime }$ even with a mass close to the unitarity upper bound, which is in the 500 to 600 GeV range. We also present results for the Tevatron with $10{\text{fb}}^{-1}$. In both cases the search for a fourth family quark doublet can be significantly enhanced if one incorporates the contribution that the $b^{\prime }$ can make to a $t^{\prime }$-like signal. Thus the bound on the mass of a degenerate quark doublet should be stronger than the bounds obtained by treating $t^{\prime }$ and $b^{\prime }$ in isolation.

10 pages, 4 eps figures, 5 Tables, publication version

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