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Title: Flavor-changing interactions mediated by scalars at the weak scale

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters; (United States)
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  1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

The quark and lepton mass matrices possess approximate flavor symmetries. Several results follow if the interactions of new scalars possess these approximate symmetries. Present experimental bounds allow these exotic scalars to have a weak-scale mass. The Glashow-Weinberg criterion is rendered unnecessary. Finally, rare leptonic {ital B} meson decays provide powerful probes of these scalars, expecially if they are leptoquarks.

DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
6949197
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 69:13; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English