Published October 17, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Upper bounds on rare K and B decays from minimal flavour violation

  • 1. Physics Department, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 (United States)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Turin (Italy)
  • 3. Physik Department, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, D-85748 Garching (Germany)
  • 4. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland)
  • 5. Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire, IN2P3-CNRS et Universite de Paris-Sud, BP 34, F-91898 Orsay cedex (France)
  • 6. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' and INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome (Italy)

Description

We study the branching ratios of rare K and B decays in models with minimal flavour violation, using the presently available information from the universal unitarity triangle analysis and from the measurements of Br(B->Xsγ), Br(B->Xsl+l-) and Br(K+->π+νν-bar ). We find the following upper bounds: Br(K+->π+νν-bar )<11.9x10-11, Br(KL->π0νν-bar )<4.6x10-11, Br(KL->μ+μ-)SD<1.4x10-9, Br(B->Xsνν-bar )<5.2x10-5, Br(B->Xdνν-bar )<2.2x10-6, Br(Bs->μ+μ-)<7.4x10-9, Br(Bd->μ+μ-)<2.2x10-10 at 95% probability. We analyze in detail various possible scenarios with positive or negative interference of Standard Model and new physics contributions, and show how an improvement of experimental data corresponding to the projected 2010 B factory integrated luminosities will allow to disentangle and test these different possibilities. Finally, anticipating that subsequently the leading role in constraining this kind of new physics will be taken over by the rare decays K+->π+νν-bar , KL->π0νν-bar and Bs,d->μ+μ-, that are dominated by the Z0-penguin function C, we also present plots for several branching ratios as functions of C. We point out an interesting triple correlation between K+->π+νν-bar , B->Xsγ and B->Xsl+l- present in MFV models

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.06.035;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0505110v1;
PII
S0550-3213(05)00493-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
726
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 252-274
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.