Confronting lepton flavor universality violation in B decays with high-$p_T$ tau lepton searches at LHC

Abstract

We confront the indications of lepton flavor universality (LFU) violation observed in semi-tauonic $B$ meson decays with new physics (NP) searches using high $p_T$ tau leptons at the LHC. Using effective field theory arguments we correlate possible non-standard contributions to semi-tauonic charged currents with the ${\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$ signature at high energy hadron colliders. Several representative standard model extensions put forward to explain the anomaly are examined in detail: (i) weak triplet of color-neutral vector resonances, (ii) second Higgs doublet and (iii) scalar or (iv) vector leptoquark. We find that, in general, ${\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$ searches pose a serious challenge to NP explanations of the LFU anomaly. Recasting existing 8 TeV and 13 TeV LHC analyses, stringent limits are set on all considered simplified models. Future projections of the ${\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$ constraints as well as caveats in interpreting them within more elaborate models are also discussed.

11 pages, 6 figures

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