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Lepton Flavour Universality in $\tau$ decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-25 v1

Abstract

The evidence for Lepton Flavour Universality (LFU) violation in semileptonic BB-decays has been rising over the past few years. Relying on generic effective field theory (EFT) results, it has been shown that models addressing the BB-anomalies necessarily lead, at one-loop, to deviations from LFU in τ\tau decays at the few per-mil level. Once a (renormalizable) UV model is specified, the leading-log EFT result receives finite corrections from the matching at the UV scale. We discuss such corrections in a motivated class of models for the B-anomalies, based on an extended SU(4)×SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)SU(4) \times SU(3) \times SU(2) \times U(1) gauge sector. In this scenario, we obtain precise predictions for the effective WW-boson and ZZ-boson couplings to leptons in terms of the masses and couplings of the new heavy fields. We confirm a few per-mil deviation from universality, within reach of future high-precision experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2207.10715,
  title  = {Lepton Flavour Universality in $\tau$ decays},
  author = {Lukas Allwicher and Nudžeim Selimović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10715},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Contribution to the 56th Rencontres de Moriond and to La Thuile 2022 - Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vall\'ee d'Aoste

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