May Heavy hadrons of the 4th generation be hidden in our Universe while close to detection?
Metastable quarks of 4th generation are predicted in the framework of heterotic string phenomenology. Their presence in heavy stable hadrons are usually strongly constrained; however their hidden compositions in Heavy doubly charged baryons here considered are found to be still allowable: we studied...
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Zusammenfassung: | Metastable quarks of 4th generation are predicted in the framework of
heterotic string phenomenology. Their presence in heavy stable hadrons are
usually strongly constrained; however their hidden compositions in Heavy doubly
charged baryons here considered are found to be still allowable: we studied
their primordial quark production in the early Universe, their freezing into
cosmic Heavy hadrons, their later annihilation into cosmic ray as well as their
relic presence in our Universe and among us on Earth. We discuss also their
possible production in present or future accelerators. Indeed if the lightest
quarks and antiquarks of the 4th generation are stored in doubly charged
baryons and neutral mesons, their lifetime can exceed the age of the Universe;
the existence of such an anomalous Helium-like (and neutral Pion-like) stable
particles may escape present experimental limits, while being close to present
and future experimental test. On the contrary primordial abundance of lightest
hadrons of the 4th generation with charge +1 can not decrease below the
experimental upper limits on anomalous hydrogen and therefore (if stable) it is
excluded. While 4th quark hadrons are rare, their presence may play different
and surprising role in cosmic rays, muon and neutrino fluxes and cosmic
electromagnetic spectra. Most of these traces are tiny, but just nearly
detectable. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0411271 |