Heavy vector-like quarks decaying to exotic scalars: a case study with triplets

A Banerjee, V Ellajosyula, L Panizzi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the pair production of a vector-like quark triplet with hypercharge
5/3 decaying into top quark and a complex scalar triplet with hypercharge 1 at the LHC. This …

Machine learning-enhanced search for a vectorlike singlet quark decaying to a singlet scalar or pseudoscalar

J Bardhan, T Mandal, S Mitra, C Neeraj - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The presence of a new decay mode relaxes the current mass exclusion limits on vectorlike
quarks considerably. We consider the case of a weak-singlet vectorlike B quark that can …

Discovery prospects of a vectorlike top partner decaying to a singlet boson

A Bhardwaj, K Bhide, T Mandal, S Mitra, C Neeraj - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The possibility of a vectorlike top partner decaying to a new colorless weak-singlet scalar or
pseudoscalar has attracted some attention in the literature. We investigate the production of …

Exploring maverick top partner decays at the LHC

S Verma, S Biswas, A Chatterjee, J Ganguly - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work, we have considered an extension of the standard model (SM) with a SU (2) L
singlet vectorlike quark (VLQ) with electric charge Q=+ 2/3. The model also contains an …

Roadmap to explore vectorlike quarks decaying to a new scalar or pseudoscalar

A Bhardwaj, T Mandal, S Mitra, C Neeraj - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The current experimental data allow for a sub-TeV colorless weak-singlet scalar or
pseudoscalar. If such a singlet field is present together with TeV-range vectorlike top and …

Vector-like quarks: status and new directions at the LHC

A Banerjee, E Bergeaas Kuutmann, V Ellajosyula… - SciPost Physics …, 2024 - scipost.org
Experimental searches for vector-like quarks have until now only considered their decays
into Standard Model particles. However, various new physics scenarios predict additional …

Phenomenological aspects of composite Higgs scenarios: exotic scalars and vector-like quarks

A Banerjee, DB Franzosi, G Cacciapaglia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Composite Higgs models usually contain additional pseudo Nambu Goldstone bosons and
vector-like quarks. We discuss various aspects related to their LHC phenomenology and …

Muon g-2 and other observables in models with extended Higgs and matter sectors

R Dermisek - Moscow University Physics Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
I review possible explanations of the muon g-2 anomaly in models with extended Higgs and
matter sectors, focusing on extensions of the standard model and the two Higgs doublet …

Anatomy of vector-like top-quark models in the alignment limit of the 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-II

A Arhrib, R Benbrik, M Boukidi, B Manaut… - The European Physical …, 2025 - Springer
A comprehensive extension of the ordinary 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM), supplemented
by vector-like quarks (VLQs), in the “alignment limit” is presented. In such a scenario, we …

Machine learning tagged boosted dark photon: A signature of fermionic portal matter at the LHC

S Verma, S Biswas, T Mandal, S Mitra - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06925, 2024 - arxiv.org
We use machine learning techniques to identify a boosted dark photon jet as a signature of
a heavy vector-like fermionic portal matter (PM) connecting the visible and the dark sectors …