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arxiv: 0811.1387 · v1 · pith:HEXG4OQGnew · submitted 2008-11-10 · ✦ hep-ph

Light bound states of heavy fermions

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keywords fermionsheavystatesboundmassesthemfieldhiggs
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In the Standard Model, a group of heavy fermions, e.g. top quarks, can collectively strongly affect the Higgs field and create relatively long-lived bound states. If there exist new generations of fermions with masses beyond 1 TeV, strong binding of several of them can make them lighter than even a single heavy fermion. Using the mean field approximation we find multi-fermion states with masses M ~ 5 v N^{1/2} ~ 1.2 N^{1/2} TeV, with N=2,3... being the total number of heavy fermions bound together, and v=246 GeV the Higgs VEV. The experimental search for multi-fermions within the range of energies 2-3 Tev would either discover them, or suggest absence of new Standard Model fermions with larger masses. Possible implications related to multi-top states and baryonic asymmetry of the Universe are discussed.

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