New physics in the kinematic distributions of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>B</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="true">¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>D</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mo>*</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi>τ</mml:mi><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mo …

Abstract

We investigate the experimentally-accessible kinematic distributions of the $\bar B\to D^{(*)}\tau^-(\to\ell^-\bar\nu_\ell\nu_\tau)\bar\nu_\tau$ decays. Specifically, we study the decay rates as functions of the $B\to D^{(*)}$ transferred squared momentum, the energy of the final charged lepton and the angle of its 3-momentum relative to the 3-momentum of the recoiling $D^{(*)}$. The angular distribution allows to introduce new observables, like a forward-backward asymmetry, which are complementary to the total rates. We present analytic formulas for the observable 3-fold 5-body differential decay rates, study the predictions in the Standard Model and investigate the effects in different new-physics scenarios that we characterize using an effective field theory framework.

Locations

• Physical review. D/Physical review. D. - View - PDF
• arXiv (Cornell University) - View - PDF
• OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) - View
• DataCite API - View