Charm physics confronts high-p<SUB>T</SUB> lepton tails

Fuentes-Martín, Javier; Greljo, Admir; Martin Camalich, Jorge; Ruiz-Alvarez, José David
Bibliographical reference

Journal of High Energy Physics

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11
2020
Number of authors
4
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
71
Refereed citations
53
Description
We present a systematic survey of possible short-distance new-physics effects in (semi)leptonic charged- and neutral-current charmed meson decays. Using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) to analyze the most relevant experimental data at low and high energies, we demonstrate a striking complementarity between charm decays and high invariant mass lepton tails at the LHC. Interestingly enough, high-pT Drell-Yan data offer competitive constraints on most new physics scenarios. Furthermore, the full set of correlated constraints from K, π and τ decays imposed by SU(2)L gauge invariance is considered. The bounds from D(s) decays, high-pT lepton tails and SU(2)L relations chart the space of the SMEFT affecting semi(leptonic) charm flavor transitions.
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