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B-physics anomalies: The bridge between R-parity violating Supersymmetry and flavoured Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-11 v2

Abstract

In recent years, significant experimental indications that point towards Lepton Flavour Universality violating effects in B-decays, involving bcτνb \to c \tau \nu and bs+b \to s \ell^+ \ell^- have been accumulated. A possible New Physics explanation can be sought within the framework of R-parity violating Supersymmetry, which contains the necessary ingredients to explain the anomalies via both leptoquark, tree-level exchange and one-loop diagrams involving purely leptonic interactions. In addition, an approximate U(2)2U(2)^2 flavour symmetry, that respects gauge coupling unification, successfully controls the strength of these interactions. Nevertheless strong constraints from leptonic processes and ZZ boson decays exclude most of the relevant parameter space at the 2σ2 \sigma level. Moreover, R-parity violation deprives Supersymmetry of its Dark Matter candidates. Motivated by these deficiencies, we introduce a new gauge singlet superfield, charged under the flavour symmetry and show that its third-generation, scalar component may participate in loop diagrams that alleviate the above-mentioned tensions, while at the same time reproduce the observed relic abundance. We obtain a solution to both anomalies that is also fully consistent with the rich Flavour and Dark Matter phenomenology. Finally, we assess the prospect to probe the model at future experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12940,
  title  = {B-physics anomalies: The bridge between R-parity violating Supersymmetry and flavoured Dark Matter},
  author = {Sokratis Trifinopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12940},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures; v2: format changed to REVTeX 4.1, minor revision changes