Decays of Fourth Generation Bound States

Abstract

We consider the decay modes of the heavy $q^{\prime }\overline{q^{\prime }}$ bound states originating from Higgs boson exchange between quark -- anti-quark pair. In case of a small coupling between the fourth and lower generation the main decay mode is $q^{\prime }\overline{q^{\prime }}$ annihilation. We show that for a vector state the dominant decay modes are Higgs-gamma and Higgs-Z decays, while for a pseudoscalar state the strong two-gluon decay mode dominates. The bound states are very narrow. The ratio of the total width to the binding energy is less than 1% if we are not extremely close to the critical quark mass where the binding energy is very small. The discussed decay modes exist for any fermion-antifermion bound states including heavy leptons and heavy neutrinos if their masses are high enough to form a bound state due to attractive Higgs boson exchange potential.

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1204.5403 by other authors