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$b\to s\tau^+\tau^-$ Physics at Future $Z$ Factories

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

bsτ+τb\to s\tau^+\tau^- measurements are highly motivated for addressing lepton-flavor-universality (LFU)-violating puzzles such as RK()R_{K^{(\ast)}} anomalies. The anomalies of RD()R_{D^{(*)}} and RJ/ψR_{J/\psi} further strengthen their necessity and importance, given that the LFU-violating hints from both involve the third-generation leptons directly. ZZ factories at the future ee+e^-e^+ colliders stand at a great position to conduct such measurements because of their relatively high production rates and reconstruction efficiencies for BB mesons at the ZZ pole. To fully explore this potential, we pursue a dedicated sensitivity study in four bsτ+τb\to s\tau^+\tau^- benchmark channels, namely B0K0τ+τB^0\to K^{\ast 0} \tau^+ \tau^-, Bsϕτ+τB_s\to\phi \tau^+ \tau^-, B+K+τ+τB^+ \to K^+ \tau^+ \tau^- and Bsτ+τB_s \to \tau^+ \tau^-, at the future ZZ factories. We develop a fully tracker-based scheme for reconstructing the signal BB mesons and introduce a semi-quantitative method for estimating their major backgrounds. The simulations indicate that branching ratios of the first three channels can be measured with a precision O(107106)\sim \mathcal O(10^{-7} - 10^{-6}) and that of Bsτ+τB_s \to \tau^+ \tau^- with a precision O(105)\sim \mathcal O(10^{-5}) at Tera-ZZ. The impacts of luminosity and tracker resolution on the expected sensitivities are explored. The interpretations of these results in effective field theory are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00665,
  title  = {$b\to s\tau^+\tau^-$ Physics at Future $Z$ Factories},
  author = {Lingfeng Li and Tao Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00665},
  year   = {2021}
}

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31 pages, 10 figures, comments welcome