Constraints on light dark sector particles from lifetime difference of heavy neutral mesons
Abstract
Heavy meson decays with missing energy in the final state offer interesting avenues to search for light invisible new physics such as dark matter (DM). In this context, we show that such new physics (NP) interactions also affect lifetime difference in neutral meson-antimeson mixing. We consider general dimension-six effective quark interactions involving a pair of DM particles and calculate their contributions to lifetime difference in beauty and charm meson systems. We use the latest data on mixing observables to constrain the relevant effective operators. We find that lifetime differences provide novel and complementary flavor constraints compared to those obtained from heavy meson decays.
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@article{arxiv.2407.14673,
title = {Constraints on light dark sector particles from lifetime difference of heavy neutral mesons},
author = {Girish Kumar and Alexey A. Petrov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14673},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
19 pages, 5 captioned figures, 1 table; v2: added Bs -> invisible constraint, matches published version