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Adrián Carmona1, Florian Goertz1
1Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We present a new class of models of lepton flavor in the composite Higgs framework. Following the concept of minimality, they lead to a rich phenomenology in good agreement with the current experimental picture. Because of a unification of the right-handed leptons, our scenario is very predictive and can naturally lead to a violation of lepton-flavor universality in neutral current interactions. We will show that, in particular, the anomaly in R_{K}=B(B→Kμ^{+}μ^{-})/B(B→Ke^{+}e^{-}), found by LHCb, can be addressed, while other constraints from quark- and lepton-flavor physics are met. In fact, the minimal structure of the setup allows for the implementation of a very powerful flavor protection, which avoids the appearance of new sources of flavor-changing neutral currents to very good approximation. Finally, the new lepton sector provides a parametrically enhanced correction to the Higgs mass, such that the need for ultralight top partners is weakened considerably, linking the mass of the latter with the size of the neutrino masses.
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