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Assessing lepton-flavour non-universality from $B\to K^*\ell\ell$ angular analyses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-09-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The BKμμB\to K^*\mu\mu decay exhibits deviations with respect to Standard Model expectations and the measurement of the ratio RKR_K hints at a violation of lepton-flavour universality in BKB\to K\ell\ell transitions. Both effects can be understood in model-independent fits as a short-distance contribution to the Wilson coefficient C9μC_{9\mu}, with some room for similar contributions in other Wilson coefficients for bsμμb\to s\mu\mu transitions. We discuss how a full angular analysis of BKeeB\to K^*ee and its comparison with BKμμB\to K^*\mu\mu could improve our understanding of these anomalies and help confirming their interpretation in terms of short-distance New Physics. We discuss several observables of interest in this context and provide predictions for them within the Standard Model as well as within several New Physics benchmark scenarios. We pay special attention to the sensitivity of these observables to hadronic uncertainties from SM contributions with charm loops.

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@article{arxiv.1605.03156,
  title  = {Assessing lepton-flavour non-universality from $B\to K^*\ell\ell$ angular analyses},
  author = {Bernat Capdevila and Sebastien Descotes-Genon and Joaquim Matias and Javier Virto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03156},
  year   = {2017}
}

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38 pages, 8 figures

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