New top-flavor models with a seesaw mechanism

A new class of models is constructed in which the third family quarks, but not leptons, experience a new SU(2) or U(1) gauge force. Anomaly cancellation enforces the introduction of spectator quarks so that top and bottom quark masses are naturally generated via a seesaw mechanism. We find the new contributions to the (S,T,U) parameters and Zbb-bar vertex to be generically small. We analyze how the reasonable flavor mixing pattern can be generated to ensure the top-seesaw mechanism and sufficiently suppress flavor-changing effects for light quarks. Collider signatures for the light Higgs boson and top quark are also discussed.