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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Combined Explanation of the Z→bb[over ¯] Forward-Backward Asymmetry, the Cabibbo Angle Anomaly, and τ→μνν and
Andreas Crivellin1, Claudio Andrea Manzari2, Marcel Algueró3
1CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland and Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
In this Letter, we propose a simple model that can provide a combined explanation of the Z→bb[over ¯] forward-backward asymmetry, the Cabibbo angle anomaly (CAA), τ→μνν and b→sℓ^{+}ℓ^{-} data. This model is obtained by extending the standard model (SM) by two heavy vectorlike quarks (an SU(2)_{L} doublet (singlet) with hypercharge -5/6 (-1/3), two new scalars (a neutral and a singly charged one), and a gauged L_{μ}-L_{τ} symmetry. The mixing of the new quarks with the SM ones, after electroweak symmetry breaking, does not only explain Z→bb[over ¯] data, but also generates a lepton flavor universal contribution to b→sℓ^{+}ℓ^{-} transitions. Together with the lepton flavor universality violating effect, generated by loop-induced Z^{'} penguins involving the charged scalar and the heavy quarks, it gives an excellent fit to data (6.1σ better than the SM). Furthermore, the charged scalar (neutral vector) gives a necessarily constructive tree-level (loop) effect in μ→eνν (τ→μνν), which can naturally account for the CAA (Br[τ→μνν]/Br[τ→eνν] and Br[τ→μνν]/Br[μ→eνν]).
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