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  "abstract": "We study the production of pairs of doubly-charged bileptons and assess their discovery potential in light of the integrated luminosities available at the High-Luminosity LHC. The production rates are governed primarily by the bilepton mass, $(m_Y)$, and the mass of the exotic heavy quarks, $(m_D)$. We consider two complementary production channels: (i) direct bilepton pair production and (ii) bilepton production mediated through heavy-quark decays. Notably, the latter typically yields significantly enhanced cross sections and gives rise to distinctive LHC signatures, even when the bileptons are produced off-shell. The two mechanisms therefore probe complementary regions of parameter space, with direct production being predominantly sensitive to $m_Y$, while the heavy-quark-mediated channel depends mainly on $m_D$. Owing to the essentially background-free signature of four energetic leptons at the LHC, we show that Run-2 data allow a discovery only for $m_D \\lesssim 1\\,\\mathrm{TeV}$, whereas the HL-LHC can achieve a $5σ$ discovery up to $m_D \\lesssim 2.5\\,\\mathrm{TeV}$ (nearly independently of $m_Y$) and/or for $m_Y \\lesssim 2\\,\\mathrm{TeV}$ (even if $D$ is heavy).",
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  "arxiv": "2605.15286",
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    {
      "name": "Andreas Crivellin"
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    {
      "name": "Paul H. Frampton"
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    {
      "name": "Ahmed Hammad"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/e6v6gempfwvxf.bib",
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2605.15286",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.15286",
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  "published": "2026-10-04",
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  "title": "Predicting Three Generations of Fermions: Discovery Prospects of the Bilepton Model",
  "title_text": "Predicting Three Generations of Fermions: Discovery Prospects of the Bilepton Model",
  "type": "preprint",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/e6v6gempfwvxf",
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