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Model independent analysis of $b \to (c,\,u)\,τν$ leptonic and semileptonic decays

Published 1 Nov 2016 in hep-ph | (1611.00231v2)

Abstract: Latest measurement of the ratio of branching ratios $R_D = \mathcal B(B \to D\,\tau\,\nu)/\mathcal B(B \to D\,l\,\nu)$ and $R_{D{\ast}} = \mathcal B(B \to D{\ast}\,\tau\,\nu)/\mathcal B(B \to D{\ast}\,l\,\nu)$, where $l$ is either an electron or muon, differs from the standard model expectation by $1.9\sigma$ and $3.3\sigma$, respectively. Similar tension has been observed in purely leptonic $B \to \tau\nu$ decays as well. In this context, we consider the most general effective Lagrangian in the presence of new physics and perform a model independent analysis to explore various new physics couplings. Motivated by the recently proposed new observables $R_D{\tau} = R_D/\mathcal B(B \to \tau\nu)$ and $R_{D{\ast}}{\tau} = R_{D{\ast}}/\mathcal B(B \to \tau\nu)$, we impose $2\sigma$ constraints coming from $R_D{\tau}$ and $R_{D{\ast}}{\tau}$ in addition to the constraints coming from $R_D$, $R_{D{\ast}}$, and $\mathcal B(B \to \tau\nu)$ to constrain the new physics parameter space. We study the impact of new physics on various observables related to $B_s \to (D_s,\,D{\ast}_s)\tau\nu$ and $B \to \pi\tau\nu$ decay processes.

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