Implication of Z-mediated FCNC on semileptonic decays $B_s\to\phi l^+l^-$ and $B^+\to K^+ l^+ l^-$

TL;DR

This paper studies how Z-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents could influence rare B meson decays, revealing potential deviations from the Standard Model predictions in key observables.

Contribution

It introduces the impact of non-universal Z-b-s couplings on semileptonic B decay observables, highlighting possible new physics effects.

Findings

Deviations in forward-backward asymmetry from SM predictions

Altered differential branching ratios due to Z-mediated FCNC

Changes in lepton polarization asymmetry patterns

Abstract

Rare B meson decays mediated by flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) transition play interesting role to probe the flavour sector of the standard model (SM). Generally at the tree level, FCNC processes are not allowed in the SM but occurs at the loop levels. This gives an excellent hunting ground for new physics (NP). From various experimental studies it is found that the FCNC processes having quark level transition $b \to s$ are challenging. Here, we investigate different kinematic observables like forward-backward asymmetry, differential branching ratio and lepton polarization asymmetry for semileptonic rare B decay modes $B_s \to \phi l^+ l^-$ and $B^+ \to K^+ l^+ l^-$ ($l= \mu,\tau$) considering the contribution of Z-mediated FCNC. A noticeable deviation of the observables for these decay channels from the SM value is found because of non-universal $Z$-$bs$ coupling.