Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD for electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes

Z Davoudi, W Detmold, P Shanahan, K Orginos… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, numerical solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using the
technique of lattice QCD have developed to a point where they are beginning to connect …

Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and -lepton properties as of summer 2016

Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFLAV):… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
This article reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and τ τ-lepton
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group using results available through …

Combined explanations of the and anomalies: A general model analysis

J Kumar, D London, R Watanabe - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
There are four models of tree-level new physics (NP) that can potentially simultaneously
explain the b→ s μ+ μ-and b→ c τ-ν¯ anomalies. They are the S 3, U 3 and U 1 leptoquarks …

Superallowed nuclear decays: 2014 critical survey, with precise results for and CKM unitarity

JC Hardy, IS Towner - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
A new critical survey is presented of all half-life, decay-energy, and branching-ratio
measurements related to 20 superallowed 0+→ 0+ β decays. Included are 222 individual …

Low-energy signatures of the PS3 model: from B-physics anomalies to LFV

M Bordone, C Cornella, J Fuentes-Martín… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract The three-site Pati-Salam gauge model provides a consistent description for the
hints of lepton-flavor non-universality observed in B decays, connecting the present pattern …

Palatable leptoquark scenarios for lepton flavor violation in exclusive b→ sℓ 1 ℓ 2 modes

D Bečirević, N Košnik, O Sumensari… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We examine various scenarios that involve a light\(\mathcal {O}\)(1 TeV) leptoquark
state and select those which are compatible with the current experimental values for ℬ (B …

Sensitivity to charged scalars in B→ D (*) τν τ and B→ τν τ decays

A Celis, M Jung, XQ Li, A Pich - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract We analyze the recent experimental evidence for an excess of τ-lepton production
in several exclusive semileptonic B-meson decays in the context of two-Higgs-doublet …

The CKM unitarity problem: A trace of new physics at the TeV scale?

B Belfatto, R Beradze, Z Berezhiani - The European Physical Journal C, 2020 - Springer
After the recent high precision determinations of V_ us V us and V_ ud V ud, the first row of
the CKM matrix shows more than 4 σ 4 σ deviation from unitarity. Two possible scenarios …

[HTML][HTML] Non-abelian gauge extensions for B-decay anomalies

SM Boucenna, A Celis, J Fuentes-Martín, A Vicente… - Physics Letters B, 2016 - Elsevier
We study the generic features of minimal gauge extensions of the Standard Model in view of
recent hints of lepton-flavor non-universality in semi-leptonic b→ s ℓ+ ℓ− and b→ c ℓ ν …

Dimension-six matrix elements for meson mixing and lifetimes from sum rules

M Kirk, A Lenz, T Rauh - Journal of high energy physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract The hadronic matrix elements of dimension-six∆ F= 0, 2 operators are crucial
inputs for the theory predictions of mixing observables and lifetime ratios in the B and D …