Implications of new evidence for lepton-universality violation in b →s <SUP>ℓ+</SUP><SUP>ℓ-</SUP> decays

Geng, Li-Sheng; Grinstein, Benjamín; Jäger, Sebastian; Li, Shuang-Yi; Martin Camalich, Jorge; Shi, Rui-Xiang
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Physical Review D

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8
2021
Number of authors
6
IAC number of authors
1
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123
Refereed citations
91
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Motivated by renewed evidence for new physics in b →s ℓℓ transitions in the form of LHCb's new measurements of theoretically clean lepton-universality ratios and the purely leptonic Bs→μ+μ- decay, we quantify the combined level of discrepancy with the Standard Model and fit values of short-distance Wilson coefficients. A combination of the clean observables RK, RK*, and Bs→μ μ alone results in a discrepancy with the Standard Model at 4.0 σ , up from 3.5 σ in 2017. One-parameter scenarios with purely left-handed or with purely axial coupling to muons fit the data well and result in a ∼5 σ pull from the Standard Model. In a two-parameter fit of new-physics contributions with both vector and axial-vector couplings to muons the allowed region is much more restricted than in 2017, principally due to the much more precise result on Bs→μ+μ-, which probes the axial coupling to muons. Including angular observables data restricts the allowed region further. A by-product of our analysis is an updated average of BR (Bs→μ+μ-)=(2.8 ±0.3 )×10-9.
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