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Hidden sector explanation of $B$-decay and cosmic ray anomalies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-05-24 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

There are presently several discrepancies in bs+b \to s \ell^+ \ell^- decays of BB mesons suggesting new physics coupling to bb quarks and leptons. We show that a ZZ', with couplings to quarks and muons that can explain the BB-decay anomalies, can also couple to dark matter in a way that is consistent with its relic abundance, direct detection limits, and hints of indirect detection. The latter include possible excess events in antiproton spectra recently observed by the AMS-02 experiment. We present two models, having a heavy (light) ZZ' with mZ600(12)m_{Z'}\sim 600\,(12)\,GeV and fermionic dark matter with mass mχ50(2000)m_\chi \sim 50\,(2000)\,GeV, producing excess antiprotons with energies of 10(300)\sim 10\, (300)\,GeV. The first model is also compatible with fits for the galactic center GeV gamma-ray excess.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00395,
  title  = {Hidden sector explanation of $B$-decay and cosmic ray anomalies},
  author = {James M. Cline and Jonathan M. Cornell and David London and Ryoutaro Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00395},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures; v2: added references and remarks on CMB/BBN constraints; v3: expanded discussion of UV completion and CMB constraints; published version