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E6 E X O T I C Q U A R K P R O D U C T I O N I N ep C O L L I S I O N S JoAnne L. H E W E T T Centerfor Particle Theory, Universityof Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA Received 22 June 1987
We examine the possibility of producing exotic quarks from E 6 theories via flavor changing couplings in high energy ep collisions at HERA and the proposed LEP X LHC. We find that the rate is rather small and very mixing angle dependent. Assuming maximal mixing, the production rates are -~ 10-30 events per year at HERA (for masses up to 100 GeV) and -~200 events per year at LEP×LHC (for masses up to 300 GeV).
The low-energy limit o f superstring-motivated E 6 grand unified theories [ 1 ] contains new phenomenology [ 2 ] which can be tested in the next generation of accelerators. This new phenomenology includes an extension o f the low-energy electroweak gauge group by (at least) one extra U(1 ) factor beyond that o f the standard model (SM), and the existence of new fermions which complete the 27 representation o f E 6. The additional U (1) factor implies the existence o f a new neutral gauge boson, Z2, which could be as light as Mz2 --- 140 GeV [ 3 ]. In addition to the usual fermions of the SM, the 27 o f E 6 contains 11 new fields, including a color triplet, iso-singlet, charge - 1/3 fermion, D. In principle D may be light and its mass is constrained by PEP and P E T R A data ~i to lie above 23 GeV. The most general Yukawa interactions o f the D fermion allowed by the E 6 superpotential are rather ambiguous [ 5 ], allowing for several different possible baryon and lepton number assignments for the D. In one scenario which has been popular in the literature [6] and which we shall consider here, the baryon (B) and lepton (L) numbers of the D are that of a SM quark, i.e., B = 1/3 and L = 0 . This leads to a breakdown o f the Glashow-Weinberg-Paschos [ 7 ] naturalness conditions implying the existence of fla1 Permanent address: Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. ~t For a recent review on the present limits for new quark masses see ref. [ 4].
vor changing neutral currents ( F C N C ) and mixing between the SM and E 6 exotic fermions [ 6 ]. In this paper we explore the possibility o f producing these exotic D quarks in ep collisions via the above off-diagonal couplings and FCNC. Clearly, if the D quarks have masses less than ~ 46 GeV they should be copiously produced at the SLC of LEP. I f the D is heavier it could be pair-produced at the TEVATRON, but may be lost in the hadronic background. The ep machines that we shall discuss here •are H E R A at DESY with x/~ = 314 GeV and the proposed L E P × L H C at C E R N with x/s___ 1.5 TeV. The quark-parton sub-processes which are responsible for single D quark production in ep collisions are shown in fig. 1. The F e y n m a n diagram in fig. l a represents the charged current reaction eu--,Dve and diagram lb shows the neutral current production e d ~ D e . In our analysis we have omitted the process e d - , D e as it yields a very small cross section as compared to the above. The double differential cross section for these processes is given by d20 .
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The fermion couplings to the second Z can be obtained from our earlier work [9], in which we studied several different E6 models which contained a low energy electroweak gauge group of the form SU(2)L × U(1 ) y × U ( 1 )x. In the following we assume that Fz2/Mz2 = 0.01 as we allow Mz2 to vary. We found that our results are insensitive to the exact value of F z J M z 2 . We take Mz, = 9 3 GeV, M w = 8 2 GeV, Fz, = F w = 2 . 8 GeV, and we use the parton distribution functions q(z) of both Duke and Owens, and EHLQ [ 10] for A =200 MeV, For simplicity we also assume that the mixing between d and D is the same for both left- and righthanded fields. In presenting our results for the production cross section the factor associated with d - D mixing has been neglected. Estimates [6 ] show that the d - D mixing angle ¢, is constrained by sin2¢d_D<0.01. Thus the final results need to be scaled by the appropriate mixing factor. In fig. 2 we present our results for the total cross section for e p - ~ v D + X via charged current interactions. These curves were obtained by using the EHLQ
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LEP × LHC the total cross section is only a few picobarns for all values of MD a n d hence is disappointingly small. Thus the neutral current process e p - , e D + X will not be a good p r o d u c t i o n mechan i s m for D quarks. The D quark has a distinct experimental signature [ 11]. Due to the existence of F C N C in E 6 theories the decay D--,dZI (Z1 real or virtual depending on MD) is allowed. IfZ~ then decays by Z l ~ + £ - , then a signal for D production is jet + £ + £ - . There is no SM process which possesses this signature. To compute the event rate for this clean signal we need to know the following branching ratios: F(D~dZI)/F (D~all) and F(ZI-~+9~-)/F (Z,-~ all). F r o m the work ofrefs. [ 11,12] we estimate that for M D = 5 0 , 150 300 GeV the branching ratio for D-~d~+~ - is ---6.6%, 2.3%, 2.7%, respectively (assuming all E 6exotics are heavier t h a n - 4 6 GeV). Thus for the charged current process we obtain, assuming m a x i m a l mixing, 2 (0.07) events/year at H E R A for MD = 50 (150) GeV, a n d 5.4 events/year at LEP X LHC for MD = 300 GeV. Clearly, if the d - D mixing is any smaller, ep collisions will not be a good place to look for D quarks. A signal might also be extracted from the decay D - ~ u W and consequently W ~ 9 . However, production of new heavy quarks, such as SM fourth generation quarks, would have this same signature. I n conclusion, we have calculated the production cross sections for the processes ep -~ ~D + X ( ~ = e, v). We f o u n d that the production rate for D quarks at H E R A a n d LEP X LHC for the neutral current process is very small. The event rate for the charged current process is more promising, depending on the value of d - D mixing. If the mixing is large enough we could search for D quarks up to - 1 0 0 GeV at H E R A a n d ~ 300 GeV at LEP X LHC.
The author would like to t h a n k T. Rizzo for his comments, a n d the Center for Particle Theory for their hospitality. This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy, Contract No. W-7405ENG-82, Office of Basic Science (KA-01-01 ), Division of High Energy Physics a n d Nuclear Physics,
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a n d in part by the Center for Particle Theory, DOE grant n u m b e r DE-FG05-84ER40200.
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