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Four statements about the fourth generation

Bob Holdom¹ , WS Hou² , Tobias Hurth³ , Michelangelo L Mangano³ , Saleh Sultansoy⁴ and Gokhan Ünel⁵

¹  Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

²  Physics Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

³  PH Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

⁴  Physics Department, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara, Turkey

⁵  Department of Physics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA

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PMC Physics A 2009, 3:4doi:10.1186/1754-0410-3-4

Published:	28  September  2009

Abstract

This summary of the Workshop "Beyond the 3-generation SM in the LHC era" presents a brief discussion of the following four statements about the fourth generation: 1) It is not excluded by EW precision data; 2) It addresses some of the currently open questions; 3) It can accommodate emerging possible hints of new physics; 4) LHC has the potential to discover or fully exclude it.

PACS codes: 12.60.-i; 14.60. Hi; 14.80.-j