Exploring leptoquark effects in hyperon and kaon decays with missing energy

Abstract

We entertain the possibility that scalar leptoquarks (LQs) generate consequential effects on the strangeness-changing decays of hyperons and kaons involving missing energy carried away by a pair of invisible fermions. Although such processes have suppressed rates in the standard model (SM), they could get significant enhancement in the presence of the LQs. In order to respect the available data on the kaon modes $K\to \pi \nu \bar{\nu }$ and increase the rates of the hyperon decays substantially at the same time, two different scalar LQs are needed. If the LQs have Yukawa couplings solely to SM fermions, we find that the hyperon rates cannot attain values within the reach of ongoing or near-future experiments because of the combined constraints from the measurements on kaon mixing and lepton-flavor-violating processes. However, if we include light right-handed neutrinos in the LQ interactions, their contributions can evade the leading restrictions and translate into hyperon rates which may be big enough to be probed by upcoming searches. Thus, these hyperon modes could provide a new avenue for seeking sterile neutrinos.

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