Physics (Internal)

LHC phenomenology of exotic fermions

This event is part of the HET Seminar Series.

Abstract: Many BSM extensions predict the existence of exotic fermions near the TeV scale. I will discuss the LHC phenomenology of such heavy exotic fermions, namely the vectorlike quarks that arise in various warped extra dimensional theories and the color octet electrons which appear in some quark-lepton compositeness models. In this regard, I will present a generic coupling extraction method with a toy example of exotic b' and a generic combined search strategy in the context of color octet electron.