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Testing spin-2 mediator by angular observables in $b\rightarrow s \mu^+ \mu^-$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-30 v2

Abstract

We consider effects of spin-2 particle in the bsμ+μb\rightarrow s \mu^+ \mu^- transition assuming that the spin-2 particle couples in a flavour non-universal way to bb and ss quarks and in the leptonic sector couples only to the muons, thereby only contributing to the process bsμ+μb\rightarrow s \mu^+ \mu^-. The BsBˉsB_s - \bar B_s transition gives the strong constraint on the coupling of the spin-2 mediator and bb and ss quarks while the observed discrepancy from the SM prediction for the muon anomalous magnetic moment (g2)μ (g-2)_\mu serves us to constrain the μ\mu-coupling to spin-2 particle. We find that the spin-2 particle can modify the angular observables in the BKμ+μB \to K \mu^+ \mu^- and BKμ+μB \to K^* \mu^+ \mu^- decays and produce effects which do not exist in the SM. The generated forward-backward asymmetries in these processes can reach 15%15\%, while other observables for these decays receive tiny effects.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1801.07115,
  title  = {Testing spin-2 mediator by angular observables in $b\rightarrow s \mu^+ \mu^-$},
  author = {Svjetlana Fajfer and Blazenka Melic and Monalisa Patra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07115},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

23 pages, 11 figures, matches PRD accepted version

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