  The Hyades open cluster presents a unique laboratory for planet formation and
stellar pollution studies because all of the stars have essentially the same
age and were born from the same cloud of gas. Furthermore, with an age of
roughly 650 Myr most of the intermediate and low mass stars are on the main
sequence. Given these assumptions, the accretion of metal rich material onto
the surface of a star during and shortly after the formation of planetary
systems should be evident via the enhanced metallicity of the star. Building on
previous work, stellar evolution models which include the effects of stellar
pollution are applied to the Hyades. The results of several Monte Carlo
simulations, in which the amount of accreted material is drawn at random from a
Gaussian distribution with standard deviation equal to half the mean, are
presented. An effective temperature-[Fe/H] relation is produced and compared to
recent observations. The theoretical predictions presented in this letter will
be useful in future searches for evidence of stellar pollution due to planet
formation. It is concluded that stellar pollution effects at the mean level of
>=2 Earth masses of iron are ruled out by current observational data.
