Variants of the Standard Model with Electroweak-Singlet Quarks

dc.creatorShrock, Robert
dc.date2008-08-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:45:41Z
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dc.descriptionThe successful description of current data provided by the Standard Model includes fundamental fermions that are color-singlets and electroweak-nonsinglets, but no fermions that are electroweak-singlets and color-nonsinglets. In an effort to understand the absence of such fermions, we construct and study {\it gedanken} models that do contain electroweak-singlet chiral quark fields. These models exhibit several distinctive properties, including the absence of any neutral lepton and the fact that both the $(uud)$ and $(ddu)$ nucleons are electrically charged. We also explore how such models could arise as low-energy limits of grand unified theories and, in this more restrictive context, we show that they exhibit further exotic properties.
dc.description8 pages, latex
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0087
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0087
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D78:076009,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.076009
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201964
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleVariants of the Standard Model with Electroweak-Singlet Quarks
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