PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 443 - 20th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines (BEAUTY2023) - Young Scientist session
New Probes of Electron--Muon Universality in $B \to K\ell^+\ell^-$ Decays
A. Rehult*, R. Fleischer, E. Malami and K. Vos
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Published on: November 07, 2024
Abstract
In the pursuit of physics beyond the Standard Model, a promising path is the study of B-meson decays caused by the transition $b \to s\ell^+\ell^-$. A key observable in such decays is the ratio $R_K$, which measures electron--muon universality in $B \to K \mu^+\mu^-/e^+e^-$. At first sight, the recent LHCb measurement of $R_K \sim 1$ may seem to largely constrain deviations from universality in these decays. However, we show that this is actually not the case: new sources of CP violation allow for significant universality violation consistent with $R_K \sim 1$. This provides an exciting new opportunity to search for New Physics by measuring differences between CP asymmetries in $B \to K\mu^+\mu^-$ and $B \to K e^+e^-$.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.443.0057
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