ar X iv : h ep - p h / 04 09 03 5 v 1 3 Se p 20 04 Flavor - Changing Processes in Extended Technicolor

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  • Maurizio Piai
  • Robert Shrock
چکیده

We analyze constraints on a class of extended technicolor (ETC) models from neutral flavor-changing processes induced by (dimension-six) four-fermion operators. The ETC gauge group is taken to commute with the standard-model gauge group. The models in the class are distinguished by how the leftand right-handed (L,R) components of the quarks and charged leptons transform under the ETC group. We consider K − K̄ and other pseudoscalar meson mixings, and conclude that they are adequately suppressed if the L and R components of the relevant quarks are assigned to the same (fundamental or conjugatefundamental) representation of the ETC group. Models in which the L and R components of the down-type quarks are assigned to relatively conjugate representations, while they can lead to realistic CKM mixing and intra-family mass splittings, do not adequately suppress these mixing processes. We identify an approximate global symmetry that elucidates these behavioral differences and can be used to analyze other possible representation assignments. Flavor-changing decays, involving quarks and/or leptons, are adequately suppressed for any ETC-representation assignment of the L and R components of the quarks, as well as the leptons. We draw lessons for future ETC model building.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004