Multilepton signatures of a hidden sector in rare B decays

作者：Batell Brian^*; Pospelov Maxim; Ritz Adam

来源：Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2011, 83(5): 054005.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevD.83.054005

We explore the sensitivity of flavor-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 -> XsS, and B-0 -> 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 S -> l (l) over bar l decays. 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) over bar) and B-0 -> n(l (l) over bar) with n >= 2, 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.

• 出版日期2011-3-7