ICHEP 2022

LFU and CP violation

9 Jul 2022, 14:47

17m

Room 9 (Indaco)

Parallel Talk Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics

Speaker

Aleks Smolkovic (University of Bern)

Description

The persistent hints of LFU violation in $b\to s\ell \ell$ may imply an existence of leptoquarks close to the TeV scale that couple to $b\mu$ and $s\mu$. These leptoquark Yukawa couplings can in full generality be complex and thus provide a new source of CP violation. We show that a large CP phase with a definite sign is perfectly viable for an $S_3$ leptoquark of mass below a few TeV, consistent with CP even and CP odd $b\to s\ell \ell$ and $B_s$ mixing observables. Furthermore, we show how the direct CP asymmetries in $B\to K\mu \mu$ are significantly enhanced in the vicinity of narrow charmonia, and that their measurement in the future could provide important additional information in constraining the potentially CP violating NP in $b\to s\ell \ell$. Possibilities for constraining such CP phases at the LHC and future colliders will also be presented.

Presentation materials

lfu_cpv_smolkovic.pdf