Importance of Loop Effects in Explaining the Accumulated Evidence for New Physics in B Decays with a Vector...

In recent years experiments revealed intriguing hints for new physics (NP) in B decays involving b→cτν and b→sℓ^{+}ℓ^{-} transitions at the 4σ and 5σ level, respectively. In addition, there are slight disagreements in b→uτν and b→dμ^{+}μ^{-} observables. While not significant on their own, they point in the same direction. Furthermore, V_{us} extracted from τ decays shows a slight tension (≈2.5σ) with its value determined from Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity, and an analysis of BELLE data found an excess in B_{d}→τ^{+}τ^{-}. Concerning NP explanations, the vector leptoquark SU(2) singlet is of special interest since it is the only single particle extension of the standard model which can (in principle) address all the anomalies described above. For this purpose, large couplings to τ leptons are necessary and loop effects, which we calculate herein, become important. Including them in our phenomenological analysis, we find that neither the tension in V_{us} nor the excess in B_{d}→τ^{+}τ^{-} can be fully explained without violating bounds from K→πνν[over ¯]. However, one can account for b→cτν and b→uτν data finding intriguing correlations with B_{q}→τ^{+}τ^{-} and K→πνν[over ¯]. Furthermore, the explanation of b→cτν predicts a positive shift in C_{7} and a negative one in C_{9}, being nicely in agreement with the global fit to b→sℓ^{+}ℓ^{-} data. Finally, we point out that one can fully account for b→cτν and b→sℓ^{+}ℓ^{-} without violating bounds from τ→ϕμ, ϒ→τμ, or b→sτμ processes.