Flavor-changing phenomenology in a model
Abstract
We investigate a family-nonuniversal Abelian extension of hypercharge, which significantly alters the phenomenological features of the standard model. Anomaly cancellation requires that the third quark family transforms differently from the first two quark families. Additionally, it acquires that three right-handed neutrinos are presented. This model generates naturally small neutrino masses and a -boson mass deviation appropriate to recent measurements. Additionally, the model introduces flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) of quarks coupled to the new gauge boson and new Higgs fields. These FCNCs significantly modify the neutral-meson mixing amplitudes and rare meson decays, which are studied in detail. We also address flavor changing processes in the charged lepton sector.
I Introduction
The evidence of neutrino oscillations McDonald (2016); Kajita (2016) suggests that the Standard Model (SM) is incomplete. Moreover, the SM lacks a dark matter candidate, which makes up most of the mass of galaxies and galatic clusters, as already observed Bertone et al. (2005).
To address these shortcomings, one approach is to extend the SM with a gauge symmetry. Popular approaches include , , for , or a dark . Most of these extensions assume universality of quark and lepton families under the charge, except for model, which introduces non-universal lepton families. In contrast, the alternative model Van Dong et al. (2023) proposes non-universal quark families. All lepton doublets and some quark doublets are assigned the same charge, denoted by , while the remaining quark doublets are assigned an opposite charge, i.e. . This model has been shown to explain the fermion family number as matched to the color number, because of anomaly cancellation. On the other hand, the theory can be embedded in a (flipped) trinification Huong and Dong (2016); Dong et al. (2018); Singer et al. (1980); Valle and Singer (1983); Pisano and Pleitez (1992) or Glashow (1961) grand unification. Right-handed neutrinos appear as fundamental components, required by anomaly cancellation too. The breaking of this Abelian symmetry naturally induces small neutrino masses.
The recent measurements of the boson mass have had significant implications for electroweak precision tests. The SM prediction for the boson mass is based on well-established relationships between the electroweak coupling constants and the masses of boson and top quark. Any deviation from these predictions could indicate to new physics beyond the SM. The extended Higgs sector as associated to a symmetry breaking beyond the SM leads to the mixing of neutral gauge bosons, and . This reduces the boson mass, thus it modifies the -gauge boson mass. The combination of the electroweak precision tests on the parameter and the boson mass based on the CDF measurement provides constraints on the new physical scale Van Dong et al. (2023) and rules out the alternative model according to . Notably, the CDF experiment Aaltonen et al. (2022) reported a surprisingly high precision measurement of the boson mass in 2022, deviating significantly from the SM prediction. While ATLAS Aad et al. (2024) and LHCb Aaij et al. (2022a) measurements have aligned with previous results, the most recent CMS measurement Bendavid (2024),
(1) |
has a comparable precision to the SM prediction. The discrepancy between the CDF result and other measurements remains unresolved. However, the CMS measurements are closer to the SM predictions, propping us to reassess earlier findings Van Dong et al. (2023).
The third family of quarks transforms differently from the first two, leading to intriguing tree-level flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) mediated by the new gauge boson. Additionally, the model includes a new Higgs doublet, resulting in both up- and down-type quarks coupling to both Higgs doublets and inevitably giving rise to tree-level FCNCs mediated by the neutral Higgs field. While the SM FCNCs vanish at tree level, they arise at the loop level through charged current contributions from -boson, which are strictly suppressed by the GIM mechanism. SM predictions for FCNC effects in meson physics, such as neutral-meson mixings and rare meson decays, , , are generally consistent with experimental observations Workman and Others (2022).
Quark FCNCs impose strong constraints on new physics proposals Duy et al. (2024); Thu et al. (2023); Duy et al. (2022); Dinh et al. (2019); Huong et al. (2019). Previous studies Van Dong et al. (2023) investigated the impact of the FCNCs associated with the new gauge boson on the meson mixing systems, providing qualitative lower bounds on the gauge boson mass. In this work, we carefully examine several experimental observations related to the quark flavor-changing processes which are mediated by new gauge boson and scalar boson, considering both tree-level and loop-level corrections mediated by new gauge bosons and scalar bosons. This comprehensive analysis allows us to derive robust constraints on new physics scenarios. Moreover, the model introduces three right-handed Majorana neutrinos, providing a solution for the observed smallness of neutrino masses. This also enriches the model’s phenomenology with lepton flavor violation processes, making them a focal point of our research interest.
The rest of this work is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we give a review of the model in which the fermion, scalar, and gauge boson mass spectra are diagonalized, and the fermion couplings to scalars and gauge bosons are identified. In Sec. III, we revisit the electroweak precision fit complemented by the mass measurement. In Sec. IV, we investigate the flavor-changing phenomenology. In Sec. V, we make a numerical analysis and discussion. Finally, we conclude this work in Sec. VI.
II The model
In the proposed model, the new electroweak group is , where breaks down to at high energy, with . The X and charges satisfy the condition: , for each family. Since X and N can be unified with in a higher isospin group, X and N can be fixed as the neutral charges of the larger group Van Dong et al. (2023). Specifically, for all lepton doublets, for some quark doublets, and for the remaining quark doublets. The anomaly vanishes if the family number, , where and are the numbers of doublets with and , respectively. This implies that must be a multiple of the color number, leading to , and . All other anomalies, such as , , and others involving and , also cancel out due to the matching number of families and colors and the presence of the right-handed neutrinos.
For symmetry breaking and mass generations, we introduce three scalar multiples: (identical to the SM Higgs doublet), (coupling the two types of quarks to recover the CKM matrix), and (coupling to right-handed neutrinos for neutrino mass generation). The particle content of the model is listed in Table 1.
Field | ||||
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1 | 2 | |||
1 | 1 | |||
1 | 1 | |||
3 | 2 | |||
3 | 1 | |||
3 | 1 | |||
3 | 2 | |||
3 | 1 | |||
3 | 1 | |||
1 | 2 | 0 | ||
1 | 2 | |||
1 | 1 |
II.1 Mass spectrum
II.1.1 Scalar mass spectrum
The scalar potential has a following form
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where , , and , ’s, and ’s are dimensionless, while have a mass dimension. After symmetry breaking, the scalar fields have the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) are given by
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This satisfies for consistency with the SM. To understand its stability and vacuum structure, we need to determine the necessary conditions for this potential to be:
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We expand the scalar fields around their VEVs as follows:
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Substituting these fields into the scalar potential, we obtain the following minimum potential conditions:
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Utilizing the conditions derived in Eqs.(10), we obtain a predicted scalar mass spectrum for considered model. This spectrum comprises three massive neutral CP-even Higgs bosons, denoted by . In the limit, , they have the following masses:
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There are also CP-odd and charged Higgs bosons denoted by and . Their masses are also given by
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The model predicts the existence of massless particles called Goldstone bosons, denoted by . These particles are absorbed by gauge boson.
In term of physical states, the original Higgs doublets and singlet Higgs can be written as linear combinations of physical fields. These combinations can be expressed as:
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Here, we define .
II.1.2 Fermion masses
The fermion masses are analyzed in more detail in Van Dong et al. (2023). For the reader’s convenience, we summarize the key findings. The Yukawa Lagrangian of the model can be expressed as Van Dong et al. (2023)
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After the gauge symmetry breaking, fermions obtain their masses, as discussed in Van Dong et al. (2023). The d-quarks, , mix together according to the mass matrix:
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and in the the basis , the mass matrix has the form
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The quark matrices, , can be diagonalized by a pair of bi-unitary matrices:
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Charged leptons acquire mass through their coupling,, given by:
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The smallness of active neutrinos is explained by the canonical seesaw mechanism, involving right-handed neutrinos with large Majorana masses, , and Dirac mass via coupling, . Active neutrinos thus acqurire a small effective mass given by:
(24) |
while heavy neutrinos have a mass:
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The physical neutrino states are related to the flavor states via a rotation matrix:
(26) |
II.1.3 Gauge boson masses
Let us list the gauge boson mass spectrum, as considered in Van Dong et al. (2023). Gauge boson masses arise from the scalar kinetic terms after spontaneous symmetry breaking. Similar to the SM, the model predicts the physical charged gauge boson, with mass . Three neutral gauge bosons, , mix. After a suitable rotation,, we obtain the photon and two physical sates, denoted by , given by:
(27) |
where
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with
Here, ,
II.2 Scalar and vector currents
II.2.1 (Pseudo) Scalar currents
The Yukawa interactions can be split into the fermion masses and interaction terms. These interaction terms have a form
(29) |
where is neutral scalar currents for both lepton and quark. In the limit , it can be written as follows:
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where
and
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with
taking for u-quark and for d-quark, and . In equation (32), the terms containing interaction constants , and describe FCNC interactions. In contrast, the remaining terms in the equation represent interactions that conserve flavor, similar to the coupling observed the SM. Note that the charged leptons couples only the SM Higgs doublet, it does not encounter any tree-FCNC for them. The scalar charged currents can be written as:
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with
(34) |
where
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The charged scalar currents associated to lepton have a form:
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Charged scalar currents introduce new contributions to flavor-changing processes in both the lepton and quark sectors at the loop level. We will delve deeper into these contributions in the next section.
II.2.2 (Axial) Vector Currents
The interact with fermions similarly as the SM
(38) |
The interactions of neutral gauge bosons with fermions have been given in Van Dong et al. (2023). Quark families transform differently under and , but transform identically under and hypercharge . Ignoring the mixing, the model provides FCNCs coupled to the gauge boson. These FCNCs can be expressed mathematically as follows:
(39) |
where we have defined,
(40) |
III Electroweak fit with the CMS boson mass measurement
The measurement of the boson mass has significant implications for electroweak precision tests. In the previous studies Van Dong et al. (2023), the authors used CDF measurement Aaltonen et al. (2022) for the boson mass in combination with electroweak precision tests on parameter. However, given the recent discrepancies between the CDF data and LHC measurements reported by CMS and ATLAS, the validity of the model under consideration is subject to scrutiny. To address this, we will re-examine the new physics contributions to gauge boson masses, focusing on the LHC measurement. The mixing between and can potentially reduce the observed mass compared to the SM boson mass. It can also give rise to a positive contribution to parameter Van Dong et al. (2023):
(41) |
It leads to a dominant enhancement of the mass:
(42) |
The Fig. 1 shows the regions allowed by both the deviation between CMS measurement with SM prediction of the boson mass and electroweak precision test on parameter Workman and Others (2022). The figures are plotted in the plane for different values , whereas other parameters are chosen as given in Van Dong et al. (2023), i.e , and . The parameter space, particularly dependent on the charge, has significantly shifted compared to previous results Van Dong et al. (2023). All four models, , allow for a region of parameter space consistent with the CMS measurements of the boson mass and global fits of the parameter. For each value of , we can determine the permissible range of the new physical scale . For example, we find TeV for and TeV and . However, the model with and impose specific constraints on , namely TeV, GeV or TeV, GeV for ; TeV, GeV or TeV, GeV for .
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IV Flavor phenomenology
IV.1 Quark flavor phenomenology
IV.1.1 Neutral meson mixing
Previous studies Van Dong et al. (2023) have explored the specific contribution of vector FCNCs to the amplitude of neutral meson mixing while neglecting the contribution of scalar currents. In this work, we aim to analyze the combined impact of both vector and scalar interactions on the mass difference of the mesons. From the scalar FCNCs given in ( 32) and vector FCNCs in (40), we can construct the effective interaction involving four quarks by integrating out the heavy fields , and . This process yields the effective interactions,
The effective interactions presented in Eq. (IV.1.1) contribute to the amplitude of neutral meson mixing. The calculations yield the following results:
(43) | |||||
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The hadronic matrix elements have been determined by using PCAC Gabbiani et al. (1996). The total contribution to the mass difference in meson mixing systems arises from both standard model (SM) and new physics (NP) effects. This can be expressed as:
(46) |
The SM predictions and experimental values for these meson mass differences is provided in the Table 2
Observables | SM predictions | Experimental values |
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Workman and Others (2022) | (PDG) Workman and Others (2022) | |
Lenz and Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi (2020) | (HFLAV) Amhis et al. (2022) | |
Lenz and Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi (2020) | (HFLAV) Amhis et al. (2022) | |
Beneke et al. (2019) | (HFLAV) Aaij et al. (2022b) | |
Misiak et al. (2020) | (HFLAV) Amhis et al. (2022) |
In system, the uncertainties are quite large because the lattice QCD calculations for long-distance effect are not well controlled. Therefore, we assume the predicted theory contributes about 30% to , it reads
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and translates to the following constraint
(48) |
The SM contributions for are more accurate compared with , we have the following constraints, as can be seen from Table .2. We combine in quadrature the relative uncertainties in both SM and experiment and get the following constraints
(49) |
IV.1.2 ,
The B-meson decay rates are extremely sensitive to new physics. Quark FCNCs and lepton currents determine the effective Hamiltonian for the meson decay processes: , and . The interaction terms of leptons with the new scalar fields, are obtained from the Yukawa Lagrangian (19) as follows
(50) |
and the new neutral gauge boson couples with two charged leptons, such as
(51) |
where can be found in Van Dong et al. (2023). Combining with the FCNCs given in Eqs.(32,40), we obtain the effective Hamiltonian as follows
(52) |
with
(53) |
The Wilson coefficients (WCs), , are dived into two parts, , where only the are non vanished and their central points are given in Beneke et al. (2018), . The contributions of NP to the WCs are
(54) |
Theoretically the branching ratio of the decay is determined by
(55) |
with is a lifetime of the . Because of the effect of oscillations of the meson, the experimental results relate to theories presented in De Bruyn et al. (2012):
(56) |
with and is numerically given in the Table. 3.
We would like to emphasize that the SM predicted the following outcomes Bobeth et al. (2014)Beneke et al. (2019):
(57) |
While the experimental bounds have been given in Aaij et al. (2020) as follows:
(58) |
and BR has the most current average experimental value given in Table 2 which is benefited from the newest results of LHCb Aaij et al. (2022b), and CMS Tumasyan et al. (2023). This upgrade of BR bring the measurement and SM prediction closer, and therefore the NP contribution, if having will be very small.
Similarly the meson mixing systems, we combine both uncertainties from SM and experimental of BR and obtain the range as follows
(59) |
with
(60) |
IV.1.3
The contributions to the decay processes, , come from the FCNCs coupled by both new neutral gauge boson and new scalars . Their relevant Lagrangian are obtained from Eqs. (40,32). The effective Hamiltonian for the decay is expressed by
(61) |
with is the energy scale of the decay . The electromagnetic and chromomagnetic dipole operators are defined as
(62) |
and the primed operators are obtained by replacing . The primed Wilson coefficients (WCs) are obtained by replacing . It should be noted that in the limit , the WCs can be ignored, and there are left unprimed WCs .The WCs split as the sum of the SM and NP contributions
(63) |
with are the SM WCs which are first given by Inami and Lim (1981), at the scale
(64) |
where the index 0 indicates that the WCs are calculated without QCD correction. The NP contributions to the WCs , , come from the charged scalar currents given in Eq. (34) and the FCNCs given in Eqs. (32), (40). We can divide the contributions as follows:
(65) |
where
(66) |
The functions and are defined by
(67) |
It is important to comment that the is suppressed by a factor , which is much smaller than SM and can be ignored. Similarly, for FCNC associated scalars , their corresponding WCs are proportional with , therefore we can also remove these terms in our calculation.
The QCD corrections to are necessary for the analysis. In SM, were calculated up to Next-to-Next-Leading Order (NNLO), specifically, we compute for GeV, based on the Refs. Misiak and Steinhauser (2007); Czakon et al. (2007, 2015). However, the NP contributions to the have been considered at the Leading Order (LO) Buras et al. (2013), Buras et al. (2011). In this work, we study the effect of QCD corrections on the at the LO. If including the LO of QCD corrections, at the scale has the forms as Buras et al. (2013), Buras et al. (2011)
(68) |
where are so called ”magic numbers” and given in Buras et al. (2011).The branching ratio for the considering decay is given as Buras et al. (2011)
(69) |
where is a non-perturbative contribution which amounts around of the branching ratio. We compute the leading order contribution to followed the Eq. (3.8) in Ref. Misiak et al. (2020) and obtain . is the semileptonic phase-space factor and BR is the branching ratio for semi-leptonic decay .
To combine both the SM and experimental uncertainties from Table 2 and reduce the amount of input parameters for this observable, we consider the ratio between SM and world average experimental value, thus obtaining the following constraint
(70) |
IV.1.4 Radiative decays of top quark
Similar to the down-type quark sector, the model also features several flavor observables related to up-type quark sector, including branching ratio of radiative top quark decays . These processes can be generated at one-loop level by FCNC interactions associated with gauge boson in Eq. (40) and by interactions of charged Higgs bosons in Eq. (34).
The branching ratio of radiative top quark decays is given by
(71) |
where are the coefficients obtained in the limit . They can be split into different contributions as follows :
(72) |
The loop functions are defined by
(73) |
The predicted branching ratios of top quark decays have to be compared the upper experimental limits Workman and Others (2022): BR and BR
IV.2 Lepton flavor phenomenology
In this model, charged Higgs bosons and right-handed neutrinos contribute to lepton flavor violation (LFV) processes at the one-loop level. This includes branching ratios of radiative decays , three-body leptonic decays () and anomalous magnetic moments for electron (muon) . The effective Hamiltonian descring these observables is given by
(74) |
where the coefficients are obtained by one-loop diagram calculations. In the limit , these coefficients can be expressed as:
(75) |
with
(76) |
where are contributions from the SM boson, and and are loop functions which are given as follows:
(77) |
The branching ratios of the LFV decay processes, , are determined by
(78) |
where is the total decay width of decaying lepton . The electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments read
(79) |
It is important to note that the leptonic observables like BR are proportional to the squared product of two Yukawa couplings . The small neutrino mass eV, obtained from type-I seesaw mechanism, implied that these Yukawa couplings are highly constrained, . Consequently, BR, combined with the overall factor , results in observables that are significantly smaller than current upper experimental limits Workman and Others (2022) of
Due to these suppressed rates, we will focus on quark flavor changing processes in the following numerical study, neglecting lepton flavor observable such as the predicted anomalous magnetic moments for the electron and muon, , which are also significantly lower than measurements Aguillard et al. (2023), Workman and Others (2022).
V Numerical analysis
Let us first discuss our assumptions for input parameters. For processes related to down-type quarks sector, we assume the left-handed quark mixing matrix to be the CKM matrix which has been extensively measured Workman and Others (2022). For the right-handed down type quark mixing matrix , we parameterize it as CKM matrix with three parameters and one CP violation phase .
In the lepton sector, we set the mixing matrix , implying that the mixing matrix of active neutrinos is identified as PMNS matrix .
For the matrix , we consider the normal relation (NR) scenario, where , and:
(80) |
where are listed in the Table. 4. We also explore the inverted relation (IR) scenario, where , and:
(81) |
The CP violation phase is set in the range . For the Higgs coupling , we apply the condition , due to the diagonalization of the mass mixing matrix .
For up-type quark flavor processes, we assume the mixing matrices of left and right-handed up-type quarks to be the identity matrices. With theses assumptions, there are no contributions to flavor-changing observables related to up-type quark sectors, including branching ratios of top quark decays , or meson oscillation . Therefore, the only new contributions to up-type quark flavor changing processes come from charged Higgs boson . For the remaining parameters, please refer of Table 3 and Table 4 for their numerical values.
For x-charge, we consider specific values and . Regarding the new physics scale, we focus on the region allowed by electroweak precision tests based on both CMS and CDF measurements.
Based on aforementioned assumptions, we will focus on following observables: meson mass differences , and the branching ratios, BR, BR, and BR. The observables namely BR, BR are also called as clean observables since they have controllable theoretical uncertainties. It is important to note that new physics contributions not only effect these clean observables but also influence other observables such as branching ratios BR, Br, angular distributions in decays , etc. These observables are strongly influenced by short-distance effects, including form factor determination and charm-loop contributions , which are challenging to quantify accurately. This leads to substantial theoretical uncertainties compared to clean observables. Therefore, in addition to study clean observables, we aim to assess whether the model can explain other observables by comparing its predicted NP WC with constraints from global fits Algueró et al. (2023).
Input parameters | Values | Input parameters | Values |
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Aoki et al. (2022) | Workman and Others (2022) | ||
Aoki et al. (2022) | Workman and Others (2022) | ||
Aoki et al. (2022) | Workman and Others (2022) | ||
Aoki et al. (2022) | Aoki et al. (2022) | ||
Aoki et al. (2022) | Aoki et al. (2022) | ||
Czakon et al. (2015) | Bon | ||
Misiak et al. (2020) | Misiak and Steinhauser (2007); Czakon et al. (2007); Misiak et al. (2020) | ||
Beneke et al. (2018) | Beneke et al. (2018) | ||
Amhis et al. (2022) | |||
Buras et al. (2011) |
SM Parameters | Values |
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Charles et al. (2015) | |
Charles et al. (2015) | |
Charles et al. (2015) | |
Charles et al. (2015) | |
Czakon et al. (2015) | |
Czakon et al. (2015) | |
Workman and Others (2022) | |
Workman and Others (2022) |
V.1 New physics scale is limited by CDF measurement of the gauge boson mass
The CDF measurement of the gauge boson mass rules out the alternative model with . Consequently, we focus on the two remaining models with
V.1.1 The case
For the model with , phenomenological studies Van Dong et al. (2023) constraint the new physics scale to TeV, the electroweak scale to GeV, and the gauge coupling ratio to . With these constraints and the input parameters from Table. 3, the model has three free parameters, , and , which are relevant for quark flavor-changing processes.
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We first consider the NR scenario. Figure. 2 shows the correlations between parameters , and satisfying the constraints for flavor-changing observables: (Eq. 48), , (Eq.49), BR (Eq. 59), BR (Eq. 70) and the upper experimental limits Workman and Others (2022): BR and BR.
In the left panel of Figure. 2, the mixing angle is significantly constrained to the range , while the CP violation phase is bounded within . Notably, the obtained range of is smaller than the corresponding CKM value
The right panel shows the correlation between VEV and mixing angle . We observe that behaves similarly to in the left panel. The allowed range for is quite limited, implying GeV. Therefore, the model with in the NR case, combined with the parameter space:
, can simultaneously fit all the constraints for meson mixing , and BR, BR and BR().
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Next, we numerically study in the IR case. By randomly sampling , and while adhering to the constraints on , BR, and BR, we obtain the correlation between the predicted values for , as depicted in Figure 3.
The figure reveals that points satisfying the experimental constraint for are significant more abundant than those satisfying the constraint for . No points simultaneously satisfy both constraints. Consequently, the IR scenario in the model with cannot adequately explain the constraints on clean down-type quark flavor observables, unlike the NR case. This suggests that the IR scenario can be ruled out in the model.
Beyond the clean observables considered above, the WCs in Eqs. (54,68) also effect other observables. We examine the effects of these WCs using the parameter space defined in Eq. (V.1.1). The scalar and pseudoscalar WCs are estimated to be , which are significantly suppressed compared to the SM WCs and can be neglected.
For remaining six WCs , we note that they are identical for different lepton flavors , implying lepton flavor university (LFU). We compare these predicted WCs with the 6D LFU global fits at the confidence interval Algueró et al. (2023), as presented in Table 5.
WCs | ||||||
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NR scenario |
The WCs lie within the intervals, while have ranges interfering with their corresponding global fit values. Since the WCs primarily depend on the NP scale , which is fixed at for , we obtain and . However, these values exceeds the global fit upper bounds and by approximately 76% and 10%, respectively.
Consequently, for with parameter space in Eq. (V.1.1), the model can explain the clean observables but not for other observables.
V.1.2 The case
In contrast to the previous scenario, the NP scale is now constrained to the range TeV, while VEV falls within the range GeV, as reported in Van Dong et al. (2023). For the case , we numerically investigate the parameter spaces that satisfy the constraints on clean observables given in Eqs.(48),(49),(59),(70) in both the NR and IR scenarios for mixing angles in matrix.
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The left panel in the Fig. 4 shows the correlation between mixing angle parameter and CP-violating phase when relaxing the constraint on quark flavor-changing processes. We note that the allowed region for and is larger than in the case. Specifically, we find and . Turning to the right panel, which presents the correlation between two VEVs and while satisfying all constraint on quark flavor observables, we obtain the lower limits GeV and GeV.
For the IR scenario with , we conducted a numerical study similar to the NR case and obtain the results shown in Figs.(5).
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Figs. 5 illustrates the correlation between , and in the case with IR condition on the mixing angle parameters in matrix. Compared to NR case, this scenario yields significantly fewer points that satisfy the constraints of flavor observations. Especially, the left panel reveals remarkably narrow regimes for around and , while the mixing angle and , respectively. These obtained values for are slightly larger than the central value of the relative CKM mixing angle Charles et al. (2015). In the right panel, the points are primarily concentrated in the region where GeV and GeV. These lower bounds for the VEVs are stringent than in the NR case.
Using the free parameters obtained from the NR and IR scenarios, we can estimate the impact of the non-standard model WCs on other observables. Numerical analysis reveal that scalar and pseudoscalar WCs , with magnitudes of, are significantly suppressed compared to the SM WCs, . Consequently, the effects of new scalars can be safely neglected. This leaves six NP WCs contributing to observables. This result aligns with case. The predicted results and the 6D LFU global fit Algueró et al. (2023) are shown in Table 6.
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IR scenario |
As shown in Table 6, for NR scenario, the predicted interval for falls within the global fit range for . However, the remaining , and exhibit interference with their corresponding global fit values . In contrast, for IR scenario, the predicted interval for does not overlap with the global fit for . Specifically, the maximum value of , while the global fit implies . Consequently, the model with and NR mixing angles in matrix can successfully explain both clean observables and other observables. However, the IR scenario fails to account for observables, despite explaining the clean observables.
V.2 New physics scale is limited by CMS measurement of the gauge boson mass
Given the recent CMS measurement of gauge boson mass, which is now consistent with SM prediction Bendavid (2024) Bon , the model suggests that all four cases of charge parameter can accommodate this new CMS measurement and the global fit of the parameter. In this section, we will revisit the flavor observables inspired by constraints on the NP scale arising from the CMS measurement of the gauge boson mass .
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In the panels corresponding four cases and of Figs. 6, we present the correlations between the mixing angle and CP violating phase satisfying constraints on quark flavor observables, with the mixing angles of set to NR values.
All four choices of allow for regions thats satisfy given flavor constraints. Notably, the obtained ranges for and are larger than in previous studies, For instance, we find and for cases and for . This behavior can be attributed to the new physics scale being significantly larger than in previous studies based on CDF II results. As a result, the NP contributions are more suppressed, allowing for a wider range of acceptable parameter values.
The panels in Figs .7 illustrate the relationship between two VEVs and satisfying flavor constraints. Comparing these panels with these in Figs .1, we observe that the behavior for is quite consistent, whereas the panels for exhibit two distinct regions. Specifically, there are narrow regimes with TeV and GeV, as well as TeV and GeV for and , respectively. Notably, the panels for and in Figs. 6 exhibit excluded regions and . These regions arise due to the discontinuous nature of the allowed parameter space in the corresponding panels of Figs .7. Specifically, there are gaps in the allowed region for around GeV and GeV, which prevent the model from satisfying the flavor constraints.
Next, we focus on the IR scenario, as depicted in Fig .8 and 9. In Fig .8, we observe a stronger correlation between the mixing angle and the CP-violating phase compared to the NR scenario. For and , the allowed region for is significantly constrained to with or ; In contrast, for and , the allowed regions for is primarily limited to , while can attain maximum values of at specific values of . In Fig .9, the constraints on the VEVs and are more stringent in the IR scenario compared to the NR scenario, especially for and . For example, we find limits such as GeV, TeV and GeV, TeV.
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Finally, we examine the impact of the obtained parameter spaces on the non-standard model WCs. As shown in Table 7, for NR scenario, the choices and are ruled out due to predicted ranges of that significantly exceed the global fit range for . In contrast, the case can potentially explain both clean and other obsevables. Turning to IR situation, as presented in Table 8, all four cases conflict with global fit for . If we revisit flavor constraints inspired by current CMS result of , the model with and NR mixing angles of can successfully explain both clean and other observables, while the IR scenario is excluded for all values of . This finding aligns with previous studies, indicating that impact of CMS measurement on does not significantly alter the overall conclusions related to flavor changing procsesses.
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VI Conclusion
The extension of hypercharge introduces a family-nonuniversal extension of the SM, altering its phenomenology. Due to the non-universality of quark generations, the model requires additional Higgs doublets to generate quark masses and recover the CKM matrix. This non-universality leads to FCNCs associated with both new vector gauge bosons and new scalar Higgs boson.
The additional Higgs doublets involved in spontaneous symmetry breaking induce mixing between and . This mixing can reduce the mass compared to the SM mass and contribute positively to the parameter and -boson mass. Recent measurements of the boson mass have shown a slight deviation from the SM predictions, prompting further investigation. Previous constraints on the parameter and mass measurement by CDF from Run II at the Tevatron differed significantly other measurements, ruling out the model with . However, the other measurements of Aad et al. (2024); Aaij et al. (2022a) including the latest CMS result Bendavid (2024) are in good agreement with each other and the SM prediction. By combining theses updated constraints on the parameter and mass, we find that the model can be viable for all cases of the parameter . The analysis provides constraints on the new physics scale. For instance, with positive , we respectively obtain TeV and TeV with GeV. The cases with negative values are more complicated, with constraints like:
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For , we obtain the allowed regions TeV if GeV, and TeV if GeV.
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For , the allowed regions are TeV if GeV , and TeV if GeV.
We investigate both (axial)vector and (pseudo)scalar currents, including neutral and charged currents. In lepton sector, the lepton flavor conserves at the tree-level. The charged scalar currents contribute to leptonic observables such as BR, which are found to be highly suppressed due to the tight constraints on Yukawa coupling .
In quark sector, the FCNCs exit at the tree-level. We consider the effects of both scalar and vector FCNCs on meson mixing systems , branching ratios of top quark decays , the clean observables BR, BR, and the observables, which are strongly influenced by short-distance effects.
We explore the parameter space that allows for explaining all mentioned flavor phenomenologies while remaining consistent with either CDF measurement Aaltonen et al. (2022) or newest CMS measurement Bendavid (2024) of the boson mass. Interestingly, we find that in both cases, the model with the charge parameter and NR mixing angles in matrix can not only accommodate the constraints in Eqs. ( 48,49, 59, 59) but also other observables. The other cases of are ruled out as they predict NP WCs outside the global fit interval Algueró et al. (2023). Specifically, for the CDF case, we obtain the constraints , , GeV and TeV. For CMS case , the constraints are broader: , , GeV and TeV.
Acknowledgement
This research is funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number 103.01-2023.50.
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