On Light Resonance Interpretations of the B Decay Anomalies

Abstract

We sketch a novel method to search for light di-leptonic resonances by exploiting precision measurements of Drell-Yan production. Motivated by the recent hints of lepton flavour universality violation in $B\to K^{\ast }{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$, we illustrate our proposal by studying the case of spin-1 resonances that couple to muons and have masses in the range of a few GeV. We show that the existing LHC data on $pp\to Z/{\gamma }^{\ast }\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ put non-trivial constraints on light di-muon resonance interpretations of $B$ decay anomalies in a model-independent fashion. The impact of our proposal on the long-standing discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is also briefly discussed.

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