Scalar leptoquarks and the rare B meson decays

TL;DR

This paper investigates how scalar leptoquarks could explain anomalies in rare B meson decays, constraining model parameters with recent measurements and predicting various decay observables.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of scalar leptoquark effects on rare B decays, including constraints and explanations for observed anomalies.

Findings

Scalar leptoquarks can explain isospin asymmetry anomalies in B decays.

Predicted branching ratios for lepton flavor violating B decays.

Constraints on leptoquark parameters from recent experimental data.

Abstract

We study some rare decays of $B$ meson involving the quark level transition $b \to q l^+l^- (q=d,s)$ in the scalar leptoquark model. We constrain the leptoquark parameter space using the recently measured branching ratios of $B_{s,d} \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ processes. Using such parameters, we obtain the branching ratios, direct CP violation parameters and isospin asymmetries in $B \to K \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B \to \pi \mu^+ \mu^-$ processes. We also obtain the branching ratios for some lepton flavour violating decays $B \to l_i^+ l_j^-$. We find that the various anomalies associated with the isospin asymmetries of $B \to K \mu^+ \mu^-$ process can be explained in the scalar leptoquark model.