Study of electroweak penguin B decays at Belle II experiment

The electroweak b → sll (l = e, µ) transition is a flavor-changing neutral current process that mediates through a one-loop penguin diagram. The decay is considered to be a good probe for the New Physics as particles predicted in the beyond Standard Model theories can enter into the loop. The exclusive decay B → K (*) l + l − was first observed by the Belle experiment and it provides many observables such as the branching fraction, CP asymmetry, forward-backward asymmetry, and other angular observables. Recently, the LHCb experiment has reported some clue of a lepton flavor universality violation from the branching fraction ratio of the B → Kµ + µ − and B → Ke + e − decays. In this presentation, we report the status of the B → Kl + l − decay analysis at the Belle II experiment which started the data taking in 2019. We also, present an activity at the Belle II Chulalongkorn University group where we study the B → KJ/ψ decay which has the same topology as the B → Kl + l − .

Are the CKM anomalies induced by vector-like quarks? Limits from flavor changing and Standard Model precision tests

Recent high precision determinations of Vus and Vud indicate towards anomalies in the first row of the CKM matrix. Namely, determination of Vud from beta decays and of Vus from kaon decays imply a violation of first row unitarity at about 3σ level. Moreover, there is tension between determinations of Vus obtained from leptonic Kμ2 and semileptonic Kℓ3 kaon decays. These discrepancies can be explained if there exist extra vector-like quarks at the TeV scale, which have large enough mixings with the lighter quarks. In particular, extra vector-like weak singlets quarks can be thought as a solution to the CKM unitarity problem and an extra vector-like weak doublet can in principle resolve all tensions. The implications of this kind of mixings are examined against the flavour changing phenomena and SM precision tests. We consider separately the effects of an extra down-type isosinglet, up-type isosinglet and an isodoublet containing extra quarks of both up and down type, and determine available parameter spaces for each case. We find that the experimental constraints on flavor changing phenomena become more stringent with larger masses, so that the extra species should have masses no more than few TeV. Moreover, only one type of extra multiplet cannot entirely explain all the discrepancies, and some their combination is required, e.g. two species of isodoublet, or one isodoublet and one (up or down type) isosinglet. We show that these scenarios are testable with future experiments. Namely, if extra vector-like quarks are responsible for CKM anomalies, then at least one of them should be found at scale of few TeV, and anomalous weak isospin violating Z-boson couplings with light quarks should be detected if the experimental precision on Z hadronic decay rate is improved by a factor of 2 or so.

The Bs0 meson decaying into τe mediated by Z′ gauge bosons

We calculate bounds for the branching ratio of the [Formula: see text] decay, for the first time, in the context of flavor changing neutral currents mediated by a [Formula: see text] gauge boson, which can arise from five extended models. In this sense, by using experimental measurements on the [Formula: see text] decay and the [Formula: see text] process, we look for constraints of the [Formula: see text] coupling, where the more restrictive bound is offered by the last one. On the other hand, by employing the experimental restriction on the [Formula: see text] decay, the strength of the [Formula: see text] coupling is estimated. Our analysis is based on the more recent experimental results on searches for the [Formula: see text] gauge boson in ATLAS and CMS detectors. In addition, we revisited the [Formula: see text] meson decays by using different approaches not previously reported. The strengths of the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] couplings were estimated by employing experimental restrictions on the [Formula: see text] decay and the [Formula: see text] conversion rate, respectively. Thus, we predict the following upper bounds: [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].

Explaining (g − 2)μ with multi-TeV sleptons

We present a supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model in which the new physics contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon can be more than an order of magnitude larger than in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. The extended electroweak symmetry breaking sector of the model can consistently accommodate Higgs bosons and Higgsinos with O(1) couplings to muons. We find that sleptons with masses in the multi-TeV range can comfortably explain the recently confirmed discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We discuss additional phenomenological aspects of the model, including its effects on tau flavor changing decays.

A final word on FCNC-Baryogenesis from two Higgs doublets

Electroweak baryogenesis in a two-Higgs doublet model is a well-motivated and testable scenario for physics beyond the Standard Model. An attractive way of providing CP violation is through flavor-changing Higgs couplings, where the top-charm coupling is hardly constrained. This minimal scenario can be tested by searching for heavy charged and neutral Higgs bosons at the LHC. While the charged Higgs signature requires a dedicated analysis, the neutral Higgs signature will be covered by a general search for same-sign top pairs. Together, they provide a conclusive test of this kind of baryogenesis.

Higgs flavor phenomenology in a supersymmetric left-right model with parity

In this paper, we focus on the supersymmetric model with left-right (LR) symmetry, that is especially proposed in our previous work [1]. In this model, there are four Higgs doublets in order to realize the Standard Model (SM) fermion masses and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. The heavy Higgs doublets unavoidably have flavor changing couplings to the SM fermions and induce flavor-changing neutral currents at tree level. We study broader parameter space than the previous work with including the renormalization group corrections to the Yukawa couplings between the LR breaking scale, $$ \mathcal{O} $$ O (1013) GeV, and the supersymmetry breaking scales, $$ \mathcal{O} $$ O (100) TeV. The CP violating observable in K–$$ \overline{K} $$ K ¯ mixing, ϵK, strongly constrains the model, so that heavy Higgs mass should be heavier than $$ \mathcal{O} $$ O (100) TeV. We study the lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes setting heavy Higgs masses to be 170 TeV. The branching ratios of μ → 3e and the μ–e conversion can be larger than 10−16 that could be covered by the future experiments. We also study the degree of fine-tuning in the parameter region that predicts testable LFV processes.

Top and beauty synergies in SMEFT-fits at present and future colliders

We perform global fits within Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) combining top-quark pair production processes and decay with b → s flavor changing neutral current transitions and Z → $$ b\overline{b} $$ b b ¯ in three stages: using existing data from the LHC and B-factories, using projections for the HL-LHC and Belle II, and studying the additional new physics impact from a future lepton collider. The latter is ideally suited to directly probe ℓ+ℓ− → $$ t\overline{t} $$ t t ¯ transitions. We observe powerful synergies in combining both top and beauty observables as flat directions are removed and more operators can be probed. We find that a future lepton collider significantly enhances this interplay and qualitatively improves global SMEFT fits.