Searches for heavy and vector-like fermions, and leptoquarks with the ATLAS and CMS experiments (22'+3')

6 May 2026, 16:45
25m
Sala SATURNO B, First Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala SATURNO B, First Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG3 Electroweak Physics, top, Higgs and Beyond the Standard Model WG3 Electro-weak physics/higgs/top and BSM

Speaker

Carlo Di Fraia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

The Standard Model of particle physics explains many natural phenomena yet remains incomplete. Leptoquarks (LQs) are hypothetical particles predicted to mediate interactions between quarks and leptons, bridging the gap between these two fundamental classes of particles. Vector-like quarks (VLQs) and vector-like leptons (VLLs) lie at the heart of many extensions seeking to address the Hierarchy Problem, as they can naturally cancel the mass divergence for the Higgs boson. This talk will present new results from LQ and VLQ searches with the ATLAS detector as well as heavy fermion searches with the CMS detector using proton-proton collision datasets at the LHC.

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Author

Carlo Di Fraia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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