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Novel $B$-decay signatures of light scalars at high energy facilities

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the phenomenology of light scalars of masses m1m_1 and m2m_2 coupling to heavy flavour-violating vector bosons of mass mVm_V. For m1,2m_{1,2}\lesssim few GeV, this scenario triggers the rare BB meson decays Bs03μ+3μB_s^0\to 3\mu^+ 3\mu^-, B03μ+3μB^0\to 3\mu^+ 3\mu^-, B+K+3μ+3μB^+\to K^+ 3\mu^+ 3\mu^- and Bs0K03μ+3μB_s^0\to K^{0*} 3\mu^+ 3\mu^-; the last two being the most important ones for m1m2m_1\sim m_2. None of these signals has been studied experimentally; therefore we propose analyses to test these channels at the LHCb. We demonstrate that the reach of this facility extends to branching ratios as small as 6.0×1096.0\times 10^{-9}, 1.6×1091.6\times 10^{-9}, 5.9×1095.9\times 10^{-9} and 1.8×1081.8\times 10^{-8} for the aforementioned channels, respectively. For m1,2O(1)m_{1,2}\gg \mathcal{O}(1) GeV, we show that slightly modified versions of current multilepton and multitau searches at the LHC can probe wide regions of the parameter space of this scenario. Altogether, the potential of the searches we propose outperform other constraints such as those from meson mixing.

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@article{arxiv.1907.13151,
  title  = {Novel $B$-decay signatures of light scalars at high energy facilities},
  author = {Andrew Blance and Mikael Chala and Maria Ramos and Michael Spannowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.13151},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 14 figures