Physics Letters B 751 (2015) 458–463
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Correlating B
0
q
→μ
+
μ
−
and K
L
→π
0
ν
¯
ν decays with four generations
Wei-Shu Hou
a
, Masaya Kohda
a,b
, Fanrong Xu
a,c,∗
a
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
b
Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li 32023, Taiwan
c
Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
2 June 2015
Received
in revised form 22 September
2015
Accepted
27 October 2015
Available
online 2 November 2015
Editor: J.
Hisano
The B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
mode has finally been observed, albeit at rate 1.2σ below Standard Model (SM) value,
while the rarer B
0
d
→μ
+
μ
−
decay has central value close to 4 times SM expectation but with only 2.2σ
significance. The measurement of CP violating phase φ
s
has finally reached SM sensitivity. Concurrent
with improved measurements at LHC Run 2, K
L
→ π
0
ν
¯
ν and K
+
→ π
+
ν
¯
ν decays are being pursued in
a similar time frame. We find, whether B
0
d
→ μ
+
μ
−
is enhanced or not, K
L
→ π
0
ν
¯
ν can be enhanced
up to the Grossman–Nir bound in the fourth generation model, correlated with some suppression of
B
s
→μ
+
μ
−
, and with φ
s
remaining small.
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1. Introduction
The 7-and-8 TeV run (Run 1) of the LHC has been a great suc-
cess,
but no New Physics (NP) has emerged. The hint of NP in the
forward–backward asymmetry of B → K
∗
+
−
decay [1] from the
B factories was eliminated by LHCb [2] early on. The mild hint
at the Tevatron [3,4] for large CP violating (CPV) phase φ
s
in B
0
s
mixing was also swiftly eliminated by LHCb [5,6], vanquishing the
suggested possible correlation [7] with large direct CPV difference
A
K π
≡ A(B
+
→ K
+
π
0
) − A(B
0
→ K
+
π
−
) [8]. Finally, the hot
pursuit for B
0
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
at the Tevatron culminated in the re-
cent
observation by the LHCb [9] and CMS [10] experiments, albeit
again consistent with the Standard Model (SM).
The
combined LHC result for B
0
q
→μ
+
μ
−
is [11],
B(B
0
s
→μ
+
μ
−
) =(2.8
+0.7
−0.6
) × 10
−9
, (1)
B(B
0
d
→μ
+
μ
−
) =(3.9
+1.6
−1.4
) × 10
−10
. (2)
At 6.2σ , the B
0
s
→μ
+
μ
−
mode is established, but SM expectation
is 7.6σ . The B
0
d
→ μ
+
μ
−
mode deviates from SM expectation of
(1.06 ±0.09) ×10
−10
[12] by 2.2σ , with central value more than 3
times
the SM value. Thus, B
0
d
→ μ
+
μ
−
should be keenly followed
at the up and coming LHC Run 2 (13 and 14 TeV).
The
1fb
−1
LHCb update for φ
s
[13] is:
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: frxu@hep1.phys.ntu.edu.tw (F. Xu).
φ
s
=0.01 ±0.07 ±0.01 (1fb
−1
, LHCb), (3)
which combines two results opposite in sign,
φ
s
=0.07 ±0.09 ±0.01 (1fb
−1
J/ψ K
¯
K , LHCb), (4)
φ
s
=−0.14
+0.17
−0.16
±0.01 (1fb
−1
J/ψ ππ, LHCb). (5)
Eq. (3) dominates the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) com-
bination [14] of
all experiments,
φ
s
=0.00 ±0.07 (PDG2014), (6)
adopted by the Particle Data Group (PDG) [15], and is in good
agreement with SM value of φ
s
−0.04. A preliminary result [16]
of
CMS,
φ
s
=−0.03 ±0.11 ±0.03 (20 fb
−1
, CMS), (7)
is not included in PDG2014, but is fully consistent.
Also
not making PDG2014 is the 3fb
−1
update by LHCb for
B
0
s
→ J /ψ π
+
π
−
with full Run 1 data [17],
φ
s
=0.070 ±0.068 ±0.008 (3fb
−1
J/ψ ππ, LHCb), (8)
with sign change from Eq. (5), becoming same sign with Eq. (4).
Because the analysis is done simultaneously with
s
measure-
ment,
the B
0
s
→ J /ψ K
¯
K mode took much longer. Intriguingly, it
also switched sign [18],
φ
s
=−0.058 ±0.049 ±0.006 (3fb
−1
J/ψ φ, LHCb), (9)
and the combined 3fb
−1
result is,
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SCOAP
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