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We construct a semi-inclusive Lepton Flavour Universality (LFU) ratio, $R_\Sigma$, to test $\mu/e$ universality in $b\to s\ell^+\ell^-$ transitions at $e^+e^-$ $B$-meson factories. Combining different decay channels, this observable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Marco Ardu , Gino Isidori , Marko Pesut

We consider an abelian extension of the Standard Model (SM) comprising a new gauge group $U(1)^\prime$, with the neutral gauge boson $Z^\prime$ having flavour violating couplings to quarks and leptons. The fermion content is the same as in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-27 Pietro Colangelo , Fulvia De Fazio , Davide Milillo

LHCb found hints for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) in $B\to K^*\mu^+\mu^-$, $R(K)$ and $B_s\to\phi\mu^+\mu^-$. These intriguing hints for NP have recently been confirmed by the LHCb measurement of $R(K^*)$ giving a combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-06 Andreas Crivellin

Flavor violating processes in the lepton sector have highly suppressed branching ratios in the standard model. Thus, observation of lepton flavor violation (LFV) constitutes a clear indication of physics beyond the standard model (BSM). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Alexey A. Petrov , Renae Conlin , Cody Grant

Flavor symmetric model is one of the attractive Beyond Standard Models (BSMs) to reveal the flavor structure of the Standard Model (SM). A lot of efforts have been put into the model building and we find many kinds of flavor symmetries and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-29 Tatsuo Kobayashi , Yuji Omura , Fumihiro Takayama , Daiki Yasuhara

In recent years, intriguing hints for the violation of Lepton Flavour Universality (LFU) have been accumulated in semileptonic $B$ decays, both in the neutral-current transitions $b\to s\ell^+\ell^-$ (i.e., $R_K$ and $R_{K^*}$) and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Bernat Capdevila , Andreas Crivellin , Sébastien Descotes-Genon , Lars Hofer , Joaquim Matias

Several experiments revealed intriguing hints for lepton flavor universality (LFU) violating new physics (NP) in semi-leptonic $B$ meson decays, mainly in $b \to c \tau \nu$ and $b \to s \ell^+ \ell^-$ transitions at the $3-5\,\sigma$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Andreas Crivellin , Francesco Saturnino

The LHCb measurement of the $\mu/e$ ratio $R_{K^*}$ indicates a deficit with respect to the Standard Model prediction, supporting earlier hints of lepton universality violation observed in the $R_K$ ratio. We show that the $R_K$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-26 Guido D'Amico , Marco Nardecchia , Paolo Panci , Francesco Sannino , Alessandro Strumia , Riccardo Torre , Alfredo Urbano

We discuss the current status of lepton flavour universality observables in semileptonic charged and neutral current $B$ meson decays. We recapitulate the current experimental situation. Assuming the current tensions with the SM are of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-05 Nejc Košnik

Recent measurements have revealed a number of intriguing deviations from the Standard Model predictions in $B$ meson decays, in particular in observables testing lepton flavour universality. We review their experimental status and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-13 Monika Blanke

B-decays mediated by both charged currents and neutral currents have provided hints of violation of lepton flavour universality. By assuming an explanation of these anomalies in terms of new physics at the TeV scale affecting the third…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-07 Ferruccio Feruglio

Motivated by recent experimental measurements on flavour physics, in tension with Standard Model predictions, we perform an updated analysis of New Physics violating Lepton Flavour Universality, by using the effective Lagrangian approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Jorge Alda , Jaume Guasch , Siannah Peñaranda

At the back of succeeding measurements of anomalies in semileptonic decays at LHCb and several collider experiments hinting at the possible violation of lepton flavor universality, we undertake a concise review of theoretical foundations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 Sonali Patnaik , Rajeev Singh

Lepton flavor violation (LFV) within the realm of the Standard Model is forbidden. However recent neutrino experiments strongly suggest neutrino oscillations, giving way to LFV. Beyond SM theories, such as supersymmetry and supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Unel

In this work we study the potential of the lepton flavor ratios $R_{K}^{\tau \mu} \equiv \Gamma(B \to K \tau^+ \tau^-)/ \Gamma(B \to K \mu^+ \mu^-)$ and $ R_{K^{*}}^{\tau \mu} \equiv \Gamma(B \to K^* \tau^+ \tau^-)/ \Gamma(B \to K^* \mu^+…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-27 Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat , Arindam Mandal

Rare semileptonic $b \to s \ell^+ \ell^-$ transitions provide some of the most promising frameworks to search for new physics effects. Recent analyses of these decays have indicated an anomalous behaviour in measurements of angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Andrea Mauri , Nicola Serra , Rafael Silva Coutinho

Most extensions of the Standard Model lepton sector predict large lepton flavor violating rates. Given the promising experimental perspectives for lepton flavor violation in the next few years, this generic expectation might offer a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-17 Avelino Vicente

The flavor-changing neutral current semileptonic decays of $B$ mesons provide an excellent platform for indirectly probing New Physics (NP) beyond the Standard Model (SM). Recent measurements of lepton flavor universality (LFU) ratios such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 Md Isha Ali , Utpal Chattopadhyay , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , N Rajeev

I discuss theoretical and phenomenological aspects of flavour violation in charged lepton transitions. This includes minimal extensions of the Standard Model within effective-theory approaches, as well as an incomplete selection of concrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Thorsten Feldmann

Leptoquarks are prime candidates for explaining the intriguing hints for lepton flavour universality violation. In particular, the $SU(2)_L$ doublet of scalar leptoquarks $S_2$ is capable of providing an explanation for the tensions between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-05 Andreas Crivellin , Benjamin Fuks , Luc Schnell