Novel $B$-decay signatures of light scalars at high energy facilities
Abstract
We study the phenomenology of light scalars of masses and coupling to heavy flavour-violating vector bosons of mass . For few GeV, this scenario triggers the rare meson decays , , and ; the last two being the most important ones for . 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 , , and for the aforementioned channels, respectively. For 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