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We consider the phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider of new heavy vector-like quarks which couple mainly to the third generation quarks via Yukawa interactions, with special emphasis on non-standard doublet representations which are less constrained from present data. We also discuss in detail the flavour limits at tree level and loop level and implications of a generalised CKM mixing matrix to these cases.
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Cacciapaglia, G., Deandrea, A., Panizzi, L. et al. Heavy vector-like top partners at the LHC and flavour constraints. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 70 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2012)070
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