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Explaining the hints for lepton flavour universality violation with three $S_2$ leptoquark generations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Leptoquarks are prime candidates for explaining the intriguing hints for lepton flavour universality violation. In particular, the SU(2)LSU(2)_L doublet of scalar leptoquarks S2S_2 is capable of providing an explanation for the tensions between the measurements and the Standard Model predictions in (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu, bs+b\to s\ell^+ \ell^- and bcτνb\to c\tau\nu processes, as well as in non-resonant di-electron production. However, in the minimal setup with a single leptoquark generation, a common explanation for all these issues is not possible as this would lead to unacceptably large charged lepton flavour violation. We therefore propose a model with three generations of S2S_2, each coupling exclusively to a single lepton flavour, \textit{i.e.}~a model extending the Standard Model particle content by an electroquark, a muoquark and a tauquark. We show that after taking into account other constraints, such as those originating from electroweak precision observables and ΔF=2\Delta F=2 processes, it is possible to provide a combined explanation for all these hints of lepton flavour universality violation. Moreover, we find that the presence of the tauquark can generate a dimension-six O9U{\cal O}_9^U operator via off-shell photon penguin diagrams, which, together with the muoquark contribution, further improves the global fit to bs+b \to s \ell^+ \ell^- data.

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@article{arxiv.2203.10111,
  title  = {Explaining the hints for lepton flavour universality violation with three $S_2$ leptoquark generations},
  author = {Andreas Crivellin and Benjamin Fuks and Luc Schnell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10111},
  year   = {2022}
}

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48 pages, 11 figures

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