English

$B$ decay anomalies and dark matter from vectorlike confinement

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-01-31 v4

Abstract

Lepton flavor universality violating BKB\to K\ell\ell and KK^*\ell\ell decays tentatively observed by LHCb can be explained by leptoquark exchange. We explore a simple model for the BB anomalies with a composite leptoquark from new strong dynamics at the TeV scale, a confining SU(NHCN_{\rm HC}) hypercolor interaction. The new matter fields, fundamentals under SU(NHCN_{\rm HC}), are heavy vectorlike fermions Ψ,S,\Psi,\, S, and an inert scalar doublet ϕ\phi. Ψ\Psi is colored under QCD while SS is neutral, and the hyperbaryon SNS^N 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 mSm_S is sufficiently small, composite leptoquarks and heavy lepton partners can be pair-produced at an observable level at LHC.

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@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

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