$B$ decay anomalies and dark matter from vectorlike confinement
Abstract
Lepton flavor universality violating and decays tentatively observed by LHCb can be explained by leptoquark exchange. We explore a simple model for the anomalies with a composite leptoquark from new strong dynamics at the TeV scale, a confining SU() hypercolor interaction. The new matter fields, fundamentals under SU(), are heavy vectorlike fermions and an inert scalar doublet . is colored under QCD while is neutral, and the hyperbaryon is a dark matter candidate. The model is tightly constrained by meson-antimeson oscillations, lepton flavor violation, and LHC searches for resonant production of the exotic bound states. The dark matter may be detectable through its magnetic dipole moment. If is sufficiently small, composite leptoquarks and heavy lepton partners can be pair-produced at an observable level at LHC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.02140,
title = {$B$ decay anomalies and dark matter from vectorlike confinement},
author = {James M. Cline},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02140},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
18 pages, 12 figures; v.2 added references; v.3 updated meson mixing constraints and muon g-2 prediction; v.4 fixed sign error, conclusions unchanged