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Constraints on the anomalous $Wtb$ couplings from $B$-physics experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-09-15 v3

Abstract

We analyze constraints on the anomalous WtbWtb couplings from BB-physics experiments, performing a correlated analysis and allowing all anomalous couplings to differ simultaneously from their Standard-Model (SM) values. The BB-physics observables allow one to probe three linear combinations out of the four anomalous couplings, which parameterize the WtbWtb vertex under the assumption that the SM symmetries remain the symmetries of the effective theory. The constraints in this work are obtained by taking into account the following BB-physics observables: the Bˉ0B0\bar B^0-B^0 oscillations, the leptonic Bμ+μB\to \mu^+\mu^- decays, the inclusive radiative BXsγB\to X_s\gamma decays, and the differential branching fractions in the semileptonic inclusive BXsμ+μB\to X_s \mu^+ \mu^- and exclusive B(K,K)μ+μB\to (K,K^*)\mu^+\mu^- decays at small q2q^2, qq the momentum of the μ+μ\mu^+\mu^- pair. We find that the SM values of the anomalous couplings belong to the 95\% CL allowed region obtained this way but lie beyond the 68\% allowed region. We also report that the distributions of the anomalous couplings obtained within our scenario differ from the results of the 1D scenario, when only one of the couplings is allowed to deviate from its SM value.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.13127,
  title  = {Constraints on the anomalous $Wtb$ couplings from $B$-physics experiments},
  author = {Anastasiia Kozachuk and Dmitri Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13127},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

7 pages, extended version. The present analysis involves also exclusive B-decays resulting in more stringent constraints on the anomalous couplings

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