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Report number	hep-ph/9512317 ; CERN-TH-95-306 ; MPI-PTH-95-135 ; CERN-TH-95-306 ; MPI-PAE-PTH-95-135
Title	Fourth-generation leptons at LEP2
Author(s)	Bhattacharyya, Gautam (CERN) ; Choudhury, Debajyoti (Munich, Max Planck Inst.)
Affiliation	(CERN) ; (MPI München)
Publication	1996
Imprint	15 Dec 1995
Number of pages	11
Note	LaTeX; 12 pages, 7 figures (uuencoded compressed postscript files submitted through figures option) Report-no: CERN-TH/95-306, MPI-PTh/95-135
In:	Nucl. Phys. B 468 (1996) 59-71
DOI	10.1016/0550-3213(96)00127-7
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	From non-observation at LEP1, a lower mass limit of 45 GeV has been established on any additional sequential fermion beyond the three generations. Precision measurements have further constrained the number of such additional generations, either degenerate or nearly so, to be at most one. LEP2, an energy-upgraded version of LEP1, would provide greater mass-reach in the search for such particles. We study the pair-production of fourth-generation leptons for various LEP2 energy options. We find that in most cases such particles could be discovered/ruled out up to the kinematic limit.
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