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LFU violations in leptonic $\tau$ decays and B-physics anomalies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-19 v2

Abstract

We present a complete analysis of Lepton Flavor Universality (LFU) violations in leptonic τ\tau decays in motivated models addressing the BB-physics anomalies, based on the SU(4)×SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)SU(4)\times SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1) gauge group. We show that the inclusion of vector-like fermions, required by BB-physics data, leads to sizable modifications of the leading-log results derived within an Effective Field Theory approach. In the motivated parameter-space region relevant to the BB-physics anomalies, the models predict a few per-mil decrease of the effective WW-boson coupling to τ\tau, within the reach of future experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2109.03833,
  title  = {LFU violations in leptonic $\tau$ decays and B-physics anomalies},
  author = {Lukas Allwicher and Gino Isidori and Nudzeim Selimovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03833},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 figures, V2: To appear in PLB. Added a discussion about the modifications of the Z couplings to leptons