Exploring charm decays with missing energy in leptoquark models
A bstract We investigate the possibility that scalar leptoquarks generate consequential effects on the flavor-changing neutral-current decays of charmed hadrons into final states with missing energy carried away by either standard model or sterile neutrinos. We focus on scenarios involving the R 2 ,...
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Published in | The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2021; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Berlin/Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
01.04.2021
Springer Nature B.V SpringerOpen |
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bstract
We investigate the possibility that scalar leptoquarks generate consequential effects on the flavor-changing neutral-current decays of charmed hadrons into final states with missing energy
carried away by either standard model or sterile neutrinos. We focus on scenarios involving the
R
2
,
R
˜
2
, and
S
¯
1
leptoquarks and take into account various pertinent constraints, learning that meson-mixing ones and those inferred from collider searches can be of significance. We find in particular that the branching fractions of charmed meson decays
D →
,
M
=
π, ρ
, and
D
s
→
and singly charmed baryon decays
Λ
c
+
→
and Ξ
c
→
are presently allowed to attain the 10
−
7
-10
−
6
levels if induced by
R
2
and that the impact of
R
˜
2
is comparatively much less. In contrast, the contributions of
S
¯
1
, which couples to right-handed up-type quarks and the sterile neutrinos, could lead to branching fractions as high as order 10
−
3
. This suggests that these charmed hadron decays might be within reach of the BESIII and Belle II experiments or future super charm-tau factories and could serve as potentially promising probes of leptoquark interactions with sterile neutrinos. |
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ISSN: | 1029-8479 1029-8479 |
DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP04(2021)246 |