Excited quark production at the CERN LHC
- 22 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 60 (3) , 034004
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.60.034004
Abstract
We study the production of excited quarks of spin-1/2 predicted by composite models. Production rates, signatures, and backgrounds are discussed for the CERN LHC. We estimate the discovery mass reach for the excited quarks decaying to jet+photon.
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