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New physics solutions for $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-10-01 v5 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Recent measurements of RDR_{D^*} have reduced tension with the Standard Model prediction. Taking all the present data into account, we obtain the values of the Wilson coefficients of each new physics four-fermion operator of a given Lorentz structure. We find that the combined data rule out most of the solutions based on scalar/pseudoscalar operators. By studying the inter-relations between different solutions, we find that there are only four allowed solutions, which are based on operators with (VA)(V-A), linear combination of (VA)(V-A) and (V+A)(V+A), tensor and linear combination of scalar/pseudoscalar and tensor structure. We demonstrate that the need for new physics is driven by those measurement of RDR_D and RDR_{D^*} where the τ\tau lepton is not studied. Further, we show that new physics only in bcμνˉb\rightarrow c\,\mu\,\bar{\nu} is not compatible with the full set of observables in the decays BDlνˉB\rightarrow Dl\bar{\nu} and BDlνˉB\rightarrow D^*l\bar{\nu}.

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@article{arxiv.1710.04127,
  title  = {New physics solutions for $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$},
  author = {Ashutosh Kumar Alok and Dinesh Kumar and Jacky Kumar and Suman Kumbhakar and S Uma Sankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04127},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure (Accepted for publication in JHEP)

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