Published September 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Charged-Higgs on RD(*), τ polarization, and FBA

  • 1. National Cheng-Kung University, Department of Physics, Tainan (China)
  • 2. KIAS, School of Physics, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We study the influence of a charged-Higgs on the excess of branching fraction ratio, RM = BR(anti B → Mτ anti ντ)/BR(anti B → Ml anti νl) (M = D, D*), in a generic two-Higgs-doublet model. In order to investigate the lepton polarization, the detailed decay amplitudes with lepton helicity are given. When the charged-Higgs is used to resolve excesses, it is found that two independent Yukawa couplings are needed to explain the RD and RD* anomalies. We show that when the upper limit of BR(Bc → τ anti ντ) < 30% is included, RD can be significantly enhanced while RD* < 0.27. With the BR(Bc → τ anti ντ) constraint, we find that the τ-lepton polarizations can be still affected by the charged-Higgs effects, where the standard model (SM) predictions are obtained: PτD ∼ 0.324 and PτD* ∼ -0.500, and they can be enhanced to be PτD ∼ 0.5 and PτD* ∼ -0.41 by the charged-Higgs. The integrated lepton forward-backward asymmetry (FBA) is also studied, where the SM result is anti AD(*)FB ∼ -0.359(0.064), and they can be enhanced (decreased) to be anti AD(*)FB ∼ -0.33(0.02). (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5198-6

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 1-11
ISSN
1434-6052