We continue our previous determination of the masses of the sequential fourth generation quarks in an extension of the Standard Model, and predict the mass m₄ (mL) of the fourth generation neutrino ν₄ (charged lepton L) by solving the dispersion relation associated with heavy fermion decays. The results m₄≈ 170 GeV and mL≈ 270 GeVare extracted from the dispersive analyses of the t→ d e⁺ν₄ and L⁻→ ν₁ t d decay widths, respectively, where t (d, e⁺, ν₁) denotes a top quark (down quark, positron, light neutrino). The predictions are then cross-checked by examining the L⁻→ ν₄ u d decay, u being an anti-up quark. It is shown that the fourth generation leptons with the above masses survive the current experimental bounds from Higgs boson decays into photon pairs and from the oblique parameters. We also revisit how the existence of the fourth generation leptons impacts the dispersive constraints on the neutrino masses and the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) matrix elements. It is found that the unitarity of the 3× 3 PMNS matrix holds well up to corrections of O(m_ν²/mW²), m_ν (mW) being a light neutrino (the W boson) mass, whose mixing angles and $CP$ phase prefer the values θ₁₂≈ 34^∘, θ₂₃≈ 46^∘, θ₁₃≈ 4^∘ and δ≈ 235^∘ in the normal-ordering scenario for neutrino masses. On the contrary, the unitarity of the 3× 3 Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix is violated at the level mb²/mW²~ 10⁻³, mb being the b quark mass, as the same formalism is applied to the quark mixing.
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