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Title: Lepton non-universality in B decays and fermion mass structure

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
  3. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)

We consider the possibility that the neutral-current B anomalies are due to radiative corrections generated by Yukawa interactions of quarks and leptons with new vector-like quark and lepton electroweak doublets and new Standard Model singlet scalars. We show that the restricted interactions needed can result from an underlying Abelian family symmetry and that the same symmetry can give rise to an acceptable pattern of quark and charged lepton masses and mixings, providing a bridge between the non-universality observed in the B-sector and that of the fermion mass matrices. We construct two simple models, one with a single singlet scalar in which the flavour changing comes from quark and lepton mixing and one with an additional scalar in which the flavour changing can come from both fermion and scalar mixing. We show that for the case the new quarks are much heavier than the new leptons and scalars the B anomalies can be due to box diagrams with couplings in the perturbative regime consistent with the bounds coming from $$B_8-\overline{B}_8, K-\overline{K}$$ and $$D-\overline{D}$$ mixing as well as other lepton family number violating processes. The new states can be dark matter candidates and, in the two scalar model with a light scalar of O(60) GeV and vector-like lepton of O(100) GeV, there can be a simultaneous explanation of the B-anomalies, the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the dark matter abundance.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Centre, Poland
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009919; DEC-2015/18/M/ST2/00054; DEC-2015/19/B/ST2/02848; DEC-2016/23/G/ST2/04301
OSTI ID:
1611234
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2018, Issue 12; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 25 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Cited By (14)

Anomaly free Froggatt-Nielsen models of flavor journal October 2019
Phenomenology of an extended IDM with loop-generated fermion mass hierarchies journal July 2019
Finite Family Groups for Fermionic and Leptoquark Mixing Patterns text January 2019
B anomalies and dark matter: a complex connection journal June 2019
Simplified Models of Flavourful Leptoquarks text January 2019
Simplified models of flavourful leptoquarks journal June 2019
New Physics in $${\varvec{b \rightarrow s \ell ^+ \ell ^-}}$$ b → s ℓ + ℓ - confronts new data on lepton universality journal August 2019
Finite family groups for fermionic and leptoquark mixing patterns text January 2020
Simplified models of flavourful leptoquarks text January 2019
B anomalies and dark matter: a complex connection text January 2019
Finite Family Groups for Fermionic and Leptoquark Mixing Patterns text January 2019
New Physics in $b \to s \ell^+ \ell^-$ confronts new data on Lepton Universality text January 2019
Complete Vector-like Fourth Family and new $\mathrm{U(1)^\prime}$ for Muon Anomalies text January 2019
Systematic approach to $B$-physics anomalies and $t$-channel dark matter text January 2021

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