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Effective Field Theory Approach to b→sℓℓ^{(')}, B→K^{(*)}νν[over ¯] and B→D^{(*)}τν with Third Generation Couplings
Lorenzo Calibbi1,2, Andreas Crivellin3, Toshihiko Ota4
1State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The LHCb Collaboration reported anomalies in B→K^{*}μ^{+}μ^{-}, B_{s}→ϕμ^{+}μ^{-}, and R(K)=B→Kμ^{+}μ^{-}/B→Ke^{+}e^{-}. Furthermore, BABAR, BELLE, and LHCb Collaborations found hints for the violation of lepton-flavor universality violation in R(D^{(*)})=B→D^{(*)}τν/B→D^{(*)}ℓν. In this Letter we reexamine these decays and their correlations to B→K^{(*)}νν[over ¯] using gauge invariant dim-6 operators. For the numerical analysis we focus on scenarios in which new physics couples, in the interaction eigenbasis, to third generation quarks and lepton only. We conclude that such a setup can explain the b→sμ^{+}μ^{-} data simultaneously with R(D^{(*)}) for small mixing angles in the lepton sector (of the order of π/16) and very small mixing angles in the quark sector (smaller than V_{cb}). In these regions of parameter space, B→K^{(*)}τμ and B_{s}→τμ can be order 10^{-6}. Possible UV completions are briefly discussed.
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