Lepton Flavor Violating $h\to\tau\mu$ decay induced by leptoquarks

The flavor changing neutral current decay $h\to\tau\mu$ is studied in a renormalizable scalar leptoquark model with no proton decay. Analytical expressions for the one-loop level contributions of a scalar leptoquark to the decay width of the process $h\to\tau\mu$ are presented. We find a viable model parameter space via the current constraints on the muon ($g-2$), the decay $\tau\to\mu\gamma$, the LHC Higgs boson data and the direct leptoquark searches at the LHC. Then, we evaluate branching ratio of the decay $h\to\tau\mu$induced by leptoquarks; we find that it is of the order of $10^{-8}-10^{-7}$ ($10^{-8}$; $10^{-9}-10^{-8}$)for a scalar leptoquark mass equal to $m_{\Omega_{5/3}}=1$ TeV ($m_{\Omega_{5/3}}=2$; $m_{\Omega_{5/3}}=10$ TeV). Finally, we evaluate the number of events produced at future hadron colliders from both the $h\to\tau\mu$ decay and the potential Standard Model background finding a potentialevidence for the $h\to\tau\mu$ decay.

Search for rare leptonic B decays at the Tevatron

Results of a search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current decay [Formula: see text] using [Formula: see text] collision data at [Formula: see text] collected at Fermilab Tevatron collider by the CDF and DØ detectors are presented. CDF reports upper limits on [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] at the 95% C.L. using 171 pb-1. The DØ Collaboration used 240 pb-1 to set an even more stringent limit on the branching ratio for [Formula: see text] of 5.0 · 10-7 at the 95% C.L.

SEARCH FOR THE DECAY Bs→μ+μ -ϕ IN $p\bar p$ COLLISIONS AT $\sqrt{s} =1.8\, {\rm TeV}$

We present a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay Bs→ μ+μ-ϕ in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text], using 91.4 pb-1 of data collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). We find two candicate events for this decay, which is consistent with the background estimate, and set a preliminary upper limit on the branching fraction of ℬ(Bs → μ+ μ-ϕ)<4.2 · 10-5 at a 90% confidence level.