Physics Letters B 774 (2017) 456–464
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Excesses of muon g −2, R
D
(∗)
, and R
K
(∗)
in a leptoquark model
Chuan-Hung Chen
a
, Takaaki Nomura
b,∗
, Hiroshi Okada
c
a
Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
b
School of Physics, KIAS, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea
c
Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
22 March 2017
Received
in revised form 27 September
2017
Accepted
1 October 2017
Available
online 4 October 2017
Editor: B. Grinstein
In this study, we investigate muon g −2, R
K
(∗)
, and R
D
(∗)
anomalies in a specific model with one doublet,
one triplet, and one singlet scalar leptoquark (LQ). When the strict limits from the
→ γ , B = 2,
B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
, and B
+
→ K
+
ν
¯
ν processes are considered, it is difficult to use one scalar LQ to explain
all of the anomalies due to the strong correlations among the constraints and observables. After ignoring
the constraints and small couplings, the muon g − 2can be explained by the doublet LQ alone due to
the m
t
enhancement, whereas the measured and unexpected smaller R
K
(∗)
requires the combined effects
of the doublet and triplet LQs, and the R
D
and R
D
∗
excesses depend on the singlet LQ through scalar-
and
tensor-type interactions.
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1. Introduction
Several interesting excesses in semileptonic B decays have been
determined in experiments such as: (i) the angular observable P
5
of B → K
∗
μ
+
μ
−
[1], where a 3.4σ deviation due to the integrated
luminosity of 3.0fb
−1
was found at the LHCb [2,3], and the same
measurement with a 2.6σ deviation was also reported by Belle [4];
and (ii) the branching fraction ratios R
D,D
∗
, which are defined and
measured as [5–10]:
R
D
=
¯
B → Dτν
¯
B → Dν
=
0.375 ±0.064 ± 0.026 Belle [5] ,
0.440 ±0.058 ± 0.042 BaBar [6,7] ,
R
D
∗
=
¯
B → D
∗
τν
¯
B → D
∗
ν
=
⎧
⎪
⎪
⎨
⎪
⎪
⎩
0.302 ±0.030 ± 0.011 Belle [8] ,
0.270 ±0.035±
+0.028
−0.025
Belle [9] ,
0.332 ±0.024 ± 0.018 BaBar [6,7] ,
0.336 ±0.027 ± 0.030 LHCb [10] ,
(1)
where = (e, μ), and these measurements can test the viola-
tion
of lepton-flavor universality. The averaged results from the
heavy flavor averaging group are R
D
= 0.403 ± 0.040 ± 0.024 and
R
D
∗
= 0.310 ± 0.015 ± 0.008 [11], and the standard model (SM)
predictions are around R
D
≈ 0.3 [12,13] and R
D
∗
≈ 0.25, respec-
tively.
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
addresses: physchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw (C.-H. Chen), nomura@kias.re.kr
(T. Nomura),
macokada3hiroshi@cts.nthu.edu.tw (H. Okada).
Further tests of lepton-flavor universality can be made us-
ing
the branching fraction ratios R
K
(∗)
= BR(B → K
(∗)
μ
+
μ
−
)/
BR(B → K
(∗)
e
+
e
−
). The current LHCb measurements are R
K
=
0.745
+0.090
−0.074
± 0.036 [14] and R
K
∗
= 0.69
+0.11
−0.07
± 0.05 [15], which
indicate a more than 2.5σ deviation from the SM results. In ad-
dition,
a known anomaly is the muon anomalous magnetic dipole
moment (muon g − 2), where its latest measurement is a
μ
=
a
exp
μ
− a
SM
μ
= (28.8 ± 8.0) × 10
−10
[16]. If we assume that these
results are correct, we need to extend the SM to explain these
excesses. Inspired by these experimental observations, various so-
lutions
to the anomalies have been proposed [17–78].
In
the SM, the b → c
¯
ν
decays (
= e, μ, τ ) arise from the
W -mediated tree diagram, whereas the b → s
+
−
decays are
generated by W -mediated box and Z -mediated penguin diagrams.
In the present study, based on our earlier study of muon g −2 and
R
K
anomalies [73], we attempt to establish a specific model that
simultaneously explains the muon g −2, R
K
(∗)
, and R
D
(∗)
anomalies
when the experimental bounds involved are satisfied. The serious
constraints include
i
→
j
γ , F = 2, B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
, B → K ν
¯
ν, etc.
To clarify the effects introduced, we do not scan all of the param-
eters
involved, but instead we retain the relevant couplings that
can satisfy or escape from the experimental bounds, whereas we
directly neglect the constrained and smaller couplings.
To
obtain the non-universal lepton-flavor effects, we consider
the extension of the SM by including scalar leptoquarks (LQs),
where the LQs are colored scalar particles that are coupled to a
lepton and a quark at the same vertex, and the couplings to the
quarks and leptons are flavor-dependent free parameters. LQs can
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