Novel signatures for vector-like quarks

J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, D.E. López-Fogliani, C. Muñoz
2017 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We consider supersymmetric extensions of the standard model with a vector-like doublet (T B) of quarks with charge 2/3 and -1/3, respectively. Compared to non-supersymmetric models, there is a variety of new decay modes for the vector-like quarks, involving the extra scalars present in supersymmetry. The importance of these new modes, yielding multi-top, multi-bottom and also multi-Higgs signals, is highlighted by the analysis of several benchmark scenarios. We show how the triangles commonly
more » ... ed to represent the branching ratios of the 'standard' decay modes of the vector-like quarks involving W, Z or Higgs bosons can be generalised to include additional channels. We give an example by recasting the limits of a recent heavy quark search for this more general case.
doi:10.1007/jhep06(2017)095 fatcat:u5rha222kvhfdomlsur6o5t7tm