Vector Leptoquark Mediated Leptonic Decay of the Heavy-Light $B$-Meson

Abstract

We study the purely leptonic decay of the heavy-light $B$-meson in the $U_1$ Vector Leptoquark Model at leading order and with one loop QCD corrections. The topology of this amplitude is characterised by direct quark-lepton vertices which allow for Lepton Flavour Universality Violation, even at the leading order. Signatures of New Physics theoretically show up in the effective meson decay constant. By accommodating the Leptoquark contributions in the lattice improved uncertainty bounds of the meson decay constant, we constrain the upper limits of the quark-lepton couplings in the $U_1$ Leptoquark Model under consideration.

Figures (11)

• Figure 1: Tree level diagram of the $U_1$ vector Leptoquark mediated decay of the $B$-meson. This is the leading order amplitude of this process in this model.
• Figure 2: Leptoquark mediated decay of the $B$-meson, with a $b$ quark vertex correction.
• Figure 3: Leptoquark mediated decay of $B$-meson, with a light quark vertex correction.
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• Figure 5: $b$ and $\bar{u}$ quarks exchanging a virtual gluon to form a hadronic box diagram.