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Spin-$1/2$ invisible particles in heavy meson decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-20 v3

Abstract

The flavor-changing neutral current decay processes of the BB and BcB_c mesons with the final states involving spin-1/21/2 particles are investigated. By considering the background of the Standard Model where ννˉ\nu\bar\nu contributes the missing energy and the experimental upper bounds for the branching fractions, we get the constraints of the coupling constants of the quark-antiquark and the assumed invisible particles χχˉ\chi\bar\chi. The constraints of the coupling constants are then used to study the similar processes of the BcB_c meson. At some specific region of mχm_\chi, the upper limit of BR(BcD(s)χχˉB_c\to D_{(s)}\chi\bar\chi) is of the order of 10610^{-6}, while for BR(BcD(s)χχˉB_c\to D^\ast_{(s)}\chi\bar\chi), it is 10510^{-5}. The possibility of distinguishing χ\chi to be a Majorana or Dirac fermion by the differential branching fractions is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2004.10942,
  title  = {Spin-$1/2$ invisible particles in heavy meson decays},
  author = {Geng Li and Tianhong Wang and Yue Jiang and Jing-Bo Zhang and Guo-Li Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10942},
  year   = {2020}
}

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21 pages, 35 figures

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