Mr Andrew Tulloch Blance andrew.t.blance@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
Novel B-decay signatures of light scalars at high energy facilities
Blance, Andrew; Chala, Mikael; Ramos, Maria; Spannowsky, Michael
Authors
Mikael Chala
Maria Ramos
Professor Michael Spannowsky michael.spannowsky@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
We study the phenomenology of light scalars of masses m1 and m2 coupling to heavy flavor-violating vector bosons of mass mV. For m1;2 ≲ few GeV, this scenario triggers the rare B meson decays B0s → 3μþ3μ−, B0 → 3μþ3μ−, Bþ → Kþ3μþ3μ−, and B0s → K03μþ3μ−; the last two being the most important ones for m1 ∼ m2. None of these signals have been studied experimentally; therefore, we propose analyses to test these channels at the LHCb. We demonstrate that the reach of this facility extends to branching ratios as small as 6.0 × 10−9, 1.6 × 10−9, 5.9 × 10−9, and 1.8 × 10−8 for the aforementioned channels, respectively. For m1;2 ≫ Oð1Þ GeV, we show that slightly modified versions of current multilepton and multitau searches at the LHC can probe wide regions of the parameter space of this scenario. Altogether, the potential of the searches we propose outperform other constraints such as those from meson mixing.
Citation
Blance, A., Chala, M., Ramos, M., & Spannowsky, M. (2019). Novel B-decay signatures of light scalars at high energy facilities. Physical Review D, 100(11), Article 115015. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.115015
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Dec 6, 2019 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Dec 10, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 10, 2019 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Print ISSN | 2470-0010 |
Electronic ISSN | 2470-0029 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 100 |
Issue | 11 |
Article Number | 115015 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.115015 |
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