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Title: Possible resolution of the B-meson decay polarization anomaly in R-parity violating supersymmetry

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Tuebingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tuebingen (Germany)
  2. Centro de Estudios Subatomicos(CES), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso (Chile)

We examine the possible resolution of the recently observed polarization anomaly in B{sup 0}(B{sup 0}){yields}{phi}K*{sup 0}(K*{sup 0})-decay within R-parity violating (Re{sub p}) SUSY. We show that a combination of the superpotential trilinear Re{sub p}-interactions, with the couplings {lambda}{sup '}, and the soft SUSY breaking bilinear Re{sub p} sneutrino-Higgs mixing, proportional to {mu}-tilde{sup 2}, can potentially generate the effective operators with the chirality structure necessary to account for this anomaly. However, we demonstrate that the existing experimental data on B{sub s}{yields}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}-decay lead to stringent upper limits on the Wilson coefficients of these operators, which are about 2 orders of magnitude below the values required for the resolution of the B-decay polarization anomaly, and, therefore, it can hardly be explained within the Re{sub p} SUSY framework. As a byproduct result of our analysis we derive new limits on the products of the soft bilinear and the superpotential trilinear Re{sub p}-parameters of the form {mu}-tilde{sup 2}{lambda}{sup '}.

OSTI ID:
21020289
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.074029; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English