Jackson D. Clarke, Robert Foot, Raymond R. Volkas
We investigate the quark-lepton symmetric model of Foot and Lew in the
context of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this `bottom-up' extension to
the Standard Model, quark-lepton symmetry is achieved by introducing a gauged
`leptonic colour' symmetry which is spontaneously broken above the electroweak
scale. If this breaking occurs at the TeV scale, then we expect new physics to
be discovered at the LHC. We examine three areas of interest: the Z$'$ heavy
neutral gauge boson, charge $\pm1/2$ exotic leptons, and a colour triplet
scalar diquark. We find that the LHC has already explored and/or will explore
new parameter space for these particles over the course of its lifetime.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3405
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