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Multi-lepton Signatures of a Hidden Sector in Rare B Decays

Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz

Abstract

We explore the sensitivity of flavour changing b -> s transitions to a (sub-)GeV hidden sector with generic couplings to the Standard Model through the Higgs, vector and axion portals. The underlying two-body decays of B mesons, B -> X_s S and B0 -> SS, where S denotes a generic new GeV-scale particle, may significantly enhance the yield of monochromatic lepton pairs in the final state via prompt decays of S to a dilepton pair. Existing measurements of the charged lepton spectrum in neutral-current semileptonic B decays provide bounds on the parameters of the light sector that are significantly more stringent than the requirements of naturalness. New search modes, such as B -> X_s + n(l+l-) and B0 -> n(l+l-) with n > 1 can provide additional sensitivity to scenarios in which both the Higgs and vector portals are active, and are accessible to (super-)B factories and hadron colliders.

Multi-lepton Signatures of a Hidden Sector in Rare B Decays

Abstract

We explore the sensitivity of flavour changing b -> s transitions to a (sub-)GeV hidden sector with generic couplings to the Standard Model through the Higgs, vector and axion portals. The underlying two-body decays of B mesons, B -> X_s S and B0 -> SS, where S denotes a generic new GeV-scale particle, may significantly enhance the yield of monochromatic lepton pairs in the final state via prompt decays of S to a dilepton pair. Existing measurements of the charged lepton spectrum in neutral-current semileptonic B decays provide bounds on the parameters of the light sector that are significantly more stringent than the requirements of naturalness. New search modes, such as B -> X_s + n(l+l-) and B0 -> n(l+l-) with n > 1 can provide additional sensitivity to scenarios in which both the Higgs and vector portals are active, and are accessible to (super-)B factories and hadron colliders.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 5 sections, 20 equations, 2 figures.

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Rare $B$-decays through the Higgs and axion portals
  3. 4. Rare $B$-decays through the U(1)$_S$ sector
  4. 4. Conclusions

Figures (2)

  • Figure 1: Sensitivity of the BaBar/Belle dataset to combined $B\rightarrow KS$ and $B\rightarrow K^*S$ decays in the dimuon channel. The region below the dashed line is technically natural as discussed in Eq. (\ref{['natural']}).
  • Figure 2: Sensitivity of the BaBar/Belle dataset to combined $B\rightarrow Ka$ and $B\rightarrow K^*a$ decays in the dimuon channel. We have set $\ln{\Lambda_{\rm UV}/m_t} \sim 1$.