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Status of the fourth fermion generation before ICHEP2012: Higgs data and electroweak precision observables

Eberhardt, Otto; Lenz, Alexander; Menzel, Andreas; Nierste, Ulrich; Wiebusch, Martin

Authors

Otto Eberhardt

Alexander Lenz

Andreas Menzel

Ulrich Nierste

Martin Wiebusch



Abstract

We perform a global fit of the parameters of the Standard Model with a sequential fourth generation (SM4) to LHC and Tevatron Higgs data and electroweak precision data. Using several likelihood ratio tests, we compare the performance of the SM4 and the Standard Model (SM3) at describing the measured data. Since the SM3 and SM4 are not nested (i.e., the SM3 cannot be considered as a special case of the SM4 with some parameters fixed), the usual analytical formulae for p-values in likelihood ratio tests do not hold. We thus apply a new method to compute these p-values. For a Higgs mass of 126.5 GeV and fourth-generation quark masses above 600 GeV, we find that the SM4 is excluded at 3.1σ.

Citation

Eberhardt, O., Lenz, A., Menzel, A., Nierste, U., & Wiebusch, M. (2012). Status of the fourth fermion generation before ICHEP2012: Higgs data and electroweak precision observables. Physical Review D, 86(7), Article 074014. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.86.074014

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 9, 2012
Deposit Date Nov 19, 2012
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physical Review D
Print ISSN 1550-7998
Electronic ISSN 1550-2368
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 86
Issue 7
Article Number 074014
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.86.074014

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