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Two-body decays in the minimal 331 model

arXiv:hep-ph/0402156 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.115004

Abstract

The two-body decays of the extra neutral boson Z_2 predicted by the minimal 331 model are analyzed. At the three-level it can decay into standard model particles as well as exotic quarks and the new gauge bosons predicted by the model. The decays into a lepton pair are strongly suppressed, with and . In the bosonic sector, Z_2 would decay mainly into a pair of bilepton gauge bosons, with a branching ratio below the 0.1 level. The Z_2 boson has thus a leptophobic and bileptophobic nature and it would decay dominantly into quark pairs. The anomaly-induced decays and , which occurs at the one-loop level are studied. It is found that and at most. As for the and decays, with H a relatively light Higgs boson, they are induced via Z'-Z mixing. It is obtained that and . We also examine the flavor changing neutral current decays and , which may have branching fractions as large as and , respectively, and thus may be of phenomenological interest.

14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review D

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