27 June 2022 to 1 July 2022
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Addressing the CKM unitarity problem with a vector-like up quark

28 Jun 2022, 17:30
15m
Room QA1.3, South Tower (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

Room QA1.3, South Tower

Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Speaker

Pedro M. F. Pereira (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

Description

We point out that hints of deviations from unitarity in the first row of the CKM matrix may be explained by the presence of a single vector-like top. We study how the stringent experimental constraints arising from CP Violation in the kaon sector and from meson mixing can be satisfied in the proposed framework. In order for the deviations from unitarity to be of the required size while keeping the theory perturbative, the new top quark should have a mass below 7 TeV, which could be probed in upcoming experiments at the energy frontier.

Authors

Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico) Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)) Pedro M. F. Pereira (Instituto Superior Tecnico) Dr J. I. Silva-Marcos Joao Penedo (CFTP/IST, Lisbon)

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