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LHC searches motivated by recent $B$-anomalies

by Darius Alexander Faroughy

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Darius A. Faroughy
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Preprint Link: scipost_201811_00031v2  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2019-01-15
Date submitted: 2018-12-11 01:00
Submitted by: Faroughy, Darius A.
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: The 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2018)
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

We discuss the physics case for the LHC motivated by the $B$-physics anomalies. After correlating semi-tauonic $B$ decays to di-tau production at the LHC, and discussing the possible models solving the $B$-anomalies, we show how existing LHC data in $\tau\bar\tau$ tails exclude most beyond the SM scenarios except for a handful of leptoquark (LQ) models. We analyze the impact of LHC searches for some of these LQ solutions using current data. In particular, we focus on the well known $U_1$ vector LQ as well as the GUT-inspired scalar LQs, $R_2$ and $S_3$. By exploiting the complementarity between di-tau searches and the lepton flavor violating decays $B\to K\mu\tau$ and $\tau\to\mu\phi$ we argue that these model can be cornered by the LHC, Belle~II and LHCb in the near future.

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Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 1, 021 (2019)

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