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A $B-$anomaly motivated $Z^\prime$ boson at the energy and precision frontiers

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

TeV-scale ZZ^\prime bosons with family-dependent couplings can explain some anomalies inferred from BB-meson measurements of processes involving the bs+b \rightarrow s \ell^+\ell^- transition. A ZZ^\prime originating from kinetically-mixed spontaneously broken U(1)B3L2U(1)_{B_3-L_2} gauge symmetry has been shown to greatly ameliorate global fits~\cite{Allanach:2024ozu} in a `flavour-preferred' region of parameter space. We provide an exploration of this region at the high luminosity (HL-)LHC with particular attention to which signals could be verified across different discovery modes. Even if the HL-LHC does not discover the ZZ^\prime boson in a resonant di-lepton channel, a FCC-ee ZZ-pole run would detect oblique corrections to the electroweak precision observables (EWPOs). Changes due to ZZ^\prime-induced non-oblique corrections are unlikely to be detected, to within experimental precision. In any case, the extended discovery potential offered by a 100 TeV pppp-collider would afford sensitivity to the entire flavour-preferred region and enable a fine-grained and forensic analysis of the~model.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21319,
  title  = {A $B-$anomaly motivated $Z^\prime$ boson at the energy and precision frontiers},
  author = {Ben Allanach and Christoph Englert and Wrishik Naskar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21319},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 Pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, author final version published at Physics Letters B