Mini-review
Four statements about the fourth generation
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* Corresponding author: Michelangelo L Mangano michelangelo.mangano@cern.ch
1 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2 Physics Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
3 PH Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
4 Physics Department, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara, Turkey
5 Department of Physics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA
PMC Physics A 2009, 3:4 doi:10.1186/1754-0410-3-4
Published: 28 September 2009Abstract
This summary of the Workshop "Beyond the 3-generation SM in the LHC era" presents a brief discussion of the following four statements about the fourth generation: 1) It is not excluded by EW precision data; 2) It addresses some of the currently open questions; 3) It can accommodate emerging possible hints of new physics; 4) LHC has the potential to discover or fully exclude it.
PACS codes: 12.60.-i; 14.60. Hi; 14.80.-j