It’s all right(-handed neutrinos): a new W ' model for the R D ( ∗ ) anomaly

Asadi, Pouya; Buckley, Matthew R.; Shih, David

doi:10.1007/jhep09(2018)010

Title: It’s all right(-handed neutrinos): a new W ' model for the $R_{D^{_{(*)}}}$ anomaly

Journal Article · 03 September 2018 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09(2018)010 · OSTI ID:1502358

^[1]; Buckley, Matthew R. ^[2]; Shih, David ^[2]

Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). NHETC. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Theoretical Physics
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). NHETC. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

The measured B-meson semi-leptonic branching ratios R_D and $R_{D^{*}}$ have long-standing deviations between theory and experiment. We introduce a model which explains both anomalies through a single interaction by introducing a right-handed neutrino as the missing energy particle. This interaction is mediated by a heavy charged vector boson (W ') which couples only to right-handed quarks and leptons of the Standard Model through the mixing of these particles with new vector-like fermions. Previous W ' models for the $R_{D^{(*)}}$ anomaly were strongly constrained from flavor changing neutral currents and direct collider searches for Z' → τ τ resonances. We show that relying on right-handed fermion mixing enables us to avoid these constraints, as well as other severe bounds from electroweak precision tests and neutrino mixing.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Simons Foundation (United States); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (United States); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010008; SC0017811; 216179; 4310; PHY17-48958

OSTI ID:: 1502358

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2018, Issue 9; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 59 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (60)

Sterile neutrinos as dark matter Dodelson, Scott; Widrow, Lawrence M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 72, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.17	journal	January 1994
Leptoquark model to explain the B -physics anomalies, R K and R D Bečirević, Damir; Fajfer, Svjetlana; Košnik, Nejc Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.115021	journal	December 2016
B → D τ ν branching ratios: Opportunity for lattice QCD and hadron colliders Kamenik, J. F.; Mescia, F. Physical Review D, Vol. 78, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.014003	journal	July 2008
Lifetime of B c − Mesons Constrains Explanations for Anomalies in B → D ( * ) τ ν Alonso, Rodrigo; Grinstein, Benjamín; Martin Camalich, Jorge Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.081802	journal	February 2017
Sterile Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and Pulsar Velocities in Models with a Higgs Singlet Kusenko, Alexander Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.241301	journal	December 2006
Sterile neutrinos as subdominant warm dark matter Palazzo, A.; Cumberbatch, D.; Slosar, A. Physical Review D, Vol. 76, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.103511	journal	November 2007
Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. Physics Letters B, Vol. 779 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.004	journal	April 2018
Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B ( B c + → J / ψ τ + ν τ ) / B ( B c + → J / ψ μ + ν μ ) Aaij, R.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121801	journal	March 2018
Search for heavy gauge W ′ bosons in events with an energetic lepton and large missing transverse momentum at s = 13 TeV Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A. Physics Letters B, Vol. 770 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.04.043	journal	July 2017
Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into a b quark and a W boson in proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. Physics Letters B, Vol. 772 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.022	journal	September 2017
Search for pair production of vector-like quarks in the b W b ‾ W channel from proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. Physics Letters B, Vol. 779 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.077	journal	April 2018
Constraints on 3.55 keV line emission from stacked observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies Malyshev, D.; Neronov, A.; Eckert, D. Physical Review D, Vol. 90, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.103506	journal	November 2014
Non-abelian gauge extensions for B-decay anomalies Boucenna, Sofiane M.; Celis, Alejandro; Fuentes-Martín, Javier Physics Letters B, Vol. 760 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.067	journal	September 2016
Tau longitudinal polarization in B ¯ → D τ ν ¯ and its role in the search for the charged Higgs boson Tanaka, Minoru; Watanabe, Ryoutaro Physical Review D, Vol. 82, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.034027	journal	August 2010
B decays with τ leptons in nonuniversal left-right models He, Xiao-Gang; Valencia, German Physical Review D, Vol. 87, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.014014	journal	January 2013
On the breaking of lepton flavor universality in B decays Admir, Greljo,; Gino, Isidori,; David, Marzocca, Springer https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-114913	text	January 2015
Explaining B → D τ ν , B → D * τ ν and B → τ ν in a two Higgs doublet model of type III Crivellin, Andreas; Greub, Christoph; Kokulu, Ahmet Physical Review D, Vol. 86, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.054014	journal	September 2012
On the breaking of lepton flavor universality in B decays Greljo, Admir; Isidori, Gino; Marzocca, David Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)142	journal	July 2015
Search for single production of a vector-like T quark decaying to a Z boson and a top quark in proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. Physics Letters B, Vol. 781 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.036	journal	June 2018
Confronting lepton flavor universality violation in B decays with high- p T tau lepton searches at LHC Faroughy, Darius A.; Greljo, Admir; Kamenik, Jernej F. Physics Letters B, Vol. 764 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.11.011	journal	January 2017
B → D * τ ν ¯ τ sensitivity to new physics Fajfer, Svjetlana; Kamenik, Jernej F.; Nišandžić, Ivan Physical Review D, Vol. 85, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.094025	journal	May 2012
Electroweak constraints on flavorful effective theories Efrati, Aielet; Falkowski, Adam; Soreq, Yotam Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)018	journal	July 2015
Search for minimal supersymmetric standard model Higgs Bosons H / A and for a $$Z^{\prime }$$ Z ′ boson in the $$\tau \tau $$ τ τ final state produced in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}= 13$$ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 76, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4400-6	journal	October 2016
Sterile neutrinos in cosmology Abazajian, Kevork N. Physics Reports, Vol. 711-712 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2017.10.003	journal	November 2017
A closer look at the R D and R D* anomalies Bardhan, Debjyoti; Byakti, Pritibhajan; Ghosh, Diptimoy Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)125	journal	January 2017
Constraining light gravitino mass from cosmic microwave background Ichikawa, Kazuhide; Kawasaki, Masahiro; Nakayama, Kazunori Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 08 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/013	journal	August 2009
Phenomenological aspects of a fermiophobic SU (2) × SU (2) × U (l) extension of the standard model Donini, Andrea; Feruglio, Ferruccio; MatiaS, Joaquira Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 507, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00537-3	journal	December 1997
Exclusive semileptonic B-meson decays Hagiwara, K.; Martin, A. D.; Wade, M. F. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 327, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(89)90306-4	journal	December 1989
b → ( c , u ) τ ν leptonic and semileptonic decays within an effective field theory approach Dutta, Rupak; Bhol, Anupama Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.036012	journal	August 2017
Sterile neutrinos: The dark side of the light fermions Kusenko, Alexander Physics Reports, Vol. 481, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2009.07.004	journal	September 2009
Neutrinos and collider physics Deppisch, Frank F.; Bhupal Dev, P. S.; Pilaftsis, Apostolos New Journal of Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/7/075019	journal	July 2015
Detection of an Unidentified Emission line in the Stacked X-Ray Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters Bulbul, Esra; Markevitch, Maxim; Foster, Adam The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 789, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/13	journal	June 2014
The Phenomenology of Right Handed Neutrinos Drewes, Marco International Journal of Modern Physics E, Vol. 22, Issue 08 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301313300191	journal	August 2013
Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics: Flavour Lattice Averaging Group (FLAG) Aoki, S.; Aoki, Y.; Bečirević, D. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 77, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4509-7	journal	February 2017
Unidentified Line in X-Ray Spectra of the Andromeda Galaxy and Perseus Galaxy Cluster Boyarsky, A.; Ruchayskiy, O.; Iakubovskyi, D. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.251301	journal	December 2014
Refining New-Physics Searches in B → D τ ν with Lattice QCD Bailey, Jon A.; Bazavov, A.; Bernard, C. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071802	journal	August 2012
Scalar contributions to b→c(u)τν transitions Celis, Alejandro; Jung, Martin; Li, Xin-Qiang Physics Letters B, Vol. 771 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.037	journal	August 2017
Sterile neutrino dark matter bounds from galaxies of the Local Group Horiuchi, Shunsaku; Humphrey, Philip J.; Oñorbe, Jose Physical Review D, Vol. 89, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.025017	journal	January 2014
Implications of Lepton Flavor Universality Violations in B Decays Fajfer, Svjetlana; Kamenik, Jernej F.; Nišandžić, Ivan Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.161801	journal	October 2012
Checking the Dark Matter Origin of a 3.53 keV Line with the Milky Way Center Boyarsky, A.; Franse, J.; Iakubovskyi, D. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.161301	journal	October 2015
New physics in the weak interaction of B ¯ → D ( * ) τ ν ¯ Tanaka, Minoru; Watanabe, Ryoutaro Physical Review D, Vol. 87, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.034028	journal	February 2013
Effective theory approach to new physics in b → u and b → c leptonic and semileptonic decays Dutta, Rupak; Bhol, Anupama; Giri, Anjan K. Physical Review D, Vol. 88, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.114023	journal	December 2013
Remarks on the Standard Model predictions for R ( D ) and R ( D * ) Kim, C. S.; Lopez-Castro, G.; Tostado, S. L. Physical Review D, Vol. 95, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.013003	journal	January 2017
Testing leptoquark models in B ¯ → D ( * ) τ ν ¯ Sakaki, Yasuhito; Watanabe, Ryoutaro; Tanaka, Minoru Physical Review D, Vol. 88, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.094012	journal	November 2013
Constraint on the branching ratio of B c − → τ ν ¯ from LEP1 data and consequences for R ( D ( * ) ) anomaly Akeroyd, A. G.; Chen, Chuan-Hung Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.075011	journal	October 2017
Search for a new heavy gauge-boson resonance decaying into a lepton and missing transverse momentum in 36 fb $$^{-1}$$ - 1 of pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 78, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5877-y	journal	May 2018
Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. Physical Review D, Vol. 97, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072008	journal	April 2018
Cosmological constraint on the light gravitino mass from CMB lensing and cosmic shear Osato, Ken; Sekiguchi, Toyokazu; Shirasaki, Masato Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 06 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/06/004	journal	June 2016
Search for Evidence of the Type-III Seesaw Mechanism in Multilepton Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 13 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.221802	journal	December 2017
B → D l ν form factors at nonzero recoil and extraction of \| V c b \| Na, Heechang; Bouchard, Chris M.; Lepage, G. Peter Physical Review D, Vol. 92, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.054510	journal	September 2015
Sensitivity to charged scalars in B → D (*) τν τ and B → τν τ decays Celis, Alejandro; Jung, Martin; Li, Xin-Qiang Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)054	journal	January 2013
Revisiting the one leptoquark solution to the R(D (∗)) anomalies and its phenomenological implications Li, Xin-Qiang; Yang, Ya-Dong; Zhang, Xin Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)054	journal	August 2016
Phenomenology of an SU(2) × SU(2) × U(1) model with lepton-flavour non-universality Boucenna, Sofiane M.; Celis, Alejandro; Fuentes-Martín, Javier Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)059	journal	December 2016
Simultaneous explanation of R(D (∗)) and b→sμ + μ −: the last scalar leptoquarks standing Crivellin, Andreas; Müller, Dario; Ota, Toshihiko Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)040	journal	September 2017
Sterile neutrinos: the dark side of the light fermions Kusenko, Alexander arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0906.2968	text	January 2009
Implications of lepton flavor universality violations in B decays Fajfer, Svjetlana; Kamenik, Jernej F.; Nisandzic, Ivan arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1206.1872	text	January 2012
The Phenomenology of Right Handed Neutrinos Drewes, Marco arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1303.6912	text	January 2013
Neutrinos and Collider Physics Deppisch, Frank F.; Dev, P. S. Bhupal; Pilaftsis, Apostolos arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1502.06541	text	January 2015
Electroweak constraints on flavorful effective theories Efrati, Aielet; Falkowski, Adam; Soreq, Yotam arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1503.07872	text	January 2015
Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter Dodelson, Scott; Widrow, Lawrence M. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9303287	text	January 1993

Cited By (10)

Charged current b → c τ ν ¯ τ anomalies in a general W ′ boson scenario Gómez, John D.; Quintero, Néstor; Rojas, Eduardo Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.093003	journal	November 2019
High- $$p_T$$ p T signatures in vector–leptoquark models Baker, Michael J.; Fuentes-Martín, Javier; Isidori, Gino The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6853-x	journal	April 2019
R D * $$ {R}_{D^{\left(*\right)}} $$ in custodial warped space Carena, Marcela; Megías, Eugenio; Quirós, Mariano Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2018)043	journal	December 2018
Low-energy signatures of the PS3 model: from B-physics anomalies to LFV Bordone, Marzia; Cornella, Claudia; Fuentes-Martín, Javier Springer https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-159691	text	January 2018
Common explanation to the R K ( * ) , R D ( * ) , and ε ′ / ε anomalies in a 3HDM with right-handed neutrinos and connections to neutrino physics Marzo, Carlo; Marzola, Luca; Raidal, Martti Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.055031	journal	September 2019
Investigation of effects of new physics in Λ b → Λ c τ ν ¯ τ decay Mu, Xiao-Long; Li, Ying; Zou, Zhi-Tian Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.113004	journal	December 2019
Test of the R ( D ( * ) ) anomaly at the LHC Iguro, Syuhei; Omura, Yuji; Takeuchi, Michihisa Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.075013	journal	April 2019
$${b\rightarrow c\tau \nu }$$ b → c τ ν transitions in the standard model effective field theory Hu, Quan-Yi; Li, Xin-Qiang; Yang, Ya-Dong The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6766-8	journal	March 2019
Simultaneous interpretation of K and B anomalies in terms of chiral-flavorful vectors Matsuzaki, Shinya; Nishiwaki, Kenji; Yamamoto, Kei Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2018)164	journal	November 2018
Exotic Lepton-Flavor Violating Higgs Decays Evans, Jared A.; Tanedo, Philip; Zakeri, Mohammadreza arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1910.07533	text	January 2019