Are there quasistable hadrons containing superheavy quarks?
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 15 (7) , 1973-1976
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.15.1973
Abstract
Flavor-changing neutral currents are reconsidered allowing the possibility that superheavy quarks, with masses comparable to the weak-boson mass, exist in nature. It is argued that the natural conservation of these weak neutral currents cannot be imposed to order in this case. Rather, the absence of strangeness-changing (and possibly charm-changing) neutral currents to this order suggests that the mixing angles between ordinary and superheavy quarks must be extremely small. Some phenomenological ramifications of this restriction are presented.
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