Review Article

Long-Lived Heavy Quarks: A Review

Table 3

Partial widths and decay lengths for a new heavy quark decaying to light quarks via on-shell charged currents , with and 173.2 GeV/ and , as computed from (1).

(GeV/ ) (GeV) ( m)

300 8.73 (2.39) 22.91 (83.85)
400 20.90 (11.14) 9.57 (17.96)
500 40.94 (27.86) 4.89 (7.18)
600 70.81 (54.52) 2.82 (3.67)
700 112.50 (93.06) 1.78 (2.15)
800 167.97 (147.43) 1.19 (1.38)
900 239.18 (213.57) 83.62 (9.36) ×  
1000 328.12 (299.46) 6.10 (6.68) ×  
1100 436.74 (405.05) 4.58 (4.94) ×  
1200 567.02 (532.31) 3.53 (3.76) ×  
1300 720.93 (683.21) 2.77 (2.92) ×  
1400 900.43 (859.72) 2.22 (2.33) ×  
1500 1107.5 (1063.79) 1.81 (1.88) ×  
1600 1344.1 (1297.4) 1.49 (1.54) ×  
1700 1612.2 (1562.5) 1.24 (1.28) ×  
1800 1913.8 (1861.1) 1.05 (1.07) ×