Flavorful leptoquarks at the LHC and beyond: Spin 1

Abstract

Evidence for electron-muon universality violation that has been revealed in $b\to s\ell \ell$ transitions in the observables $R_{K,K^{\ast }}$ by the LHCb Collaboration can be explained with spin-1 leptoquarks in $SU(2{)}_L$ singlet $V_1$ or triplet $V_3$ representations in the $\mathcal{O}(1-10)$ TeV range. We explore the sensitivity of the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and future proton-proton colliders to $V_1$ and $V_3$ in the parameter space connected to $R_{K,K^{\ast }}$-data. We consider pair production and single production in association with muons in different flavor benchmarks. Reinterpreting a recent ATLAS search for scalar leptoquarks decaying to $b\mu$ and $j\mu$, we extract improved limits for the leptoquark masses: For gauge boson-type leptoquarks ($\kappa =1$) we obtain $M_{V_1}>1.9$ TeV, $M_{V_1}>1.9$ TeV, and $M_{V_1}>1.7$ TeV for leptoquarks decaying predominantly according to hierarchical, flipped and democratic quark flavor structure, respectively. Future sensitivity projections based on extrapolations of existing ATLAS and CMS searches are worked out. We find that for $\kappa =1$ the mass reach for pair (single) production of $V_1$ can be up to 3 TeV (2.1 TeV) at the HL-LHC and up to 15 TeV (19.9 TeV) at the FCC-hh with $\sqrt{s}=100$ TeV and $20 \, \mbox{ab}^{-1}$. The mass limits and reach for the triplet $V_3$ are similar or higher, depending on flavor. While there is the exciting possibility that leptoquarks addressing the $R_{K,K^{\ast }}$-anomalies are observed at the LHC, to fully cover the parameter space $pp$-collisions beyond the LHC-energies are needed.

arXiv comment16 pages, 8 figures; v2: Clarifying comments, four plots and few references added. Few typos corrected. Conclusions unchanged

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