Phenomenological Constraints on Extended Quark Sectors

Abstract

We study the flavor physics in two extensions of the quark sector of the Standard Model (SM): a four generation model and a model with a single vector--like down--type quark (VDQ). In our analysis we take into account the experimental constraints from tree--level charged current processes, rare Kaon decay processes, rare B decay processes, the $Z\to b\bar{b}$ decay, $K$, $B$ and $D$ mass differences, and the CP violating parameters $\frac ε^\prime}ε$, ${\epsilon }_K$ and $a_{\psi K}$. All the constraints are taken at two sigma. We find bounds on parameters which can be used to represent the New Physics contributions in these models (${\lambda }_{t^{\prime }}^{bd}$, ${\lambda }_{t^{\prime }}^{bs}$ and ${\lambda }_{t^{\prime }}^{sd}$ in the four--generation model, and $U_{bd}$, $U_{bs}$ and $U_{sd}$ in the VDQ model) due to all the above constraints. In both models the predicted ranges for $a_{SL}$ (the CP asymmetry in semi-leptonic decays), $\Delta M_D$, $B(K^{+}\to {\pi }^{+}\nu \bar{\nu })$, $B(K_L\to {\pi }^0\nu \bar{\nu })$ and $B(K_L\to \mu \bar{\mu }{)}_{SD}$ can be significantly higher than the predictions of the SM, while the allowed ranges for $a_{\psi K}$ and for $\Delta m_{B_S}$ are consistent with the SM prediction.

22 pages, 5 figures (v3: added a reference, updated a reference, added missing units)

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