$B$ decay anomalies and dark matter from strong dynamics

Abstract

Indications of lepton flavor universality violation in semileptonic $B$ decays to $K$ or $K^{\ast }$ and muons or electrons can be explained by leptoquark exchange. I present a model in which the leptoquark is a bound state of constituents charged under a new confining SU($N_{\mathrm{HC}}$) hypercolor interaction. The lightest neutral bound state in the theory is an asymmetric dark matter candidate, that might be directly detectable through its magnetic dipole moment interaction.

6 pages, 5 figures; presented at LFC17: Old and New Strong Interactions from LHC to Future Colliders, 15 September 2017, ECT*, Trento, Italy. v2: updated references

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