Correlating nonresonant di-electron searches at the LHC to the Cabibbo-angle anomaly and lepton flavor universality violation

Andreas Crivellin (CERN Theory Division, CH–1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH–8057 Zürich, Switzerland, and Paul Scherrer Institut, CH–5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland) ; Claudio Andrea Manzari (Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH–8057 Zürich, Switzerland and Paul Scherrer Institut, CH–5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland) ; Marc Montull (Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH–8057 Zürich, Switzerland and Paul Scherrer Institut, CH–5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland)

In addition to the existing strong indications for lepton flavor universality violation in low-energy precision experiments, the CMS Collaboration at CERN recently released an analysis of nonresonant dilepton pairs which could constitute the first sign of lepton flavor universality violation in high-energy searches at the LHC. In this article, we show that the Cabibbo-angle anomaly, an (apparent) violation of first row and column Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix unitarity with 3σ significance, and the CMS result can be correlated and commonly explained in a model-independent way by the operator [Qq(3)]1111=(¯1γμσI1)(q¯1γμσIq1). This is possible without violating the bounds from the nonresonant dilepton search of ATLAS (which interestingly also observed slightly more events than expected in the electron channel) nor from R(π)=πμν/πeν. We find a combined preference for the new physics hypothesis of 4.5σ and predict 1.0004<R(π)<1.0009 (95% C.L.) which can be tested in the near future with the forthcoming results of the PEN experiment.

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Published on:
14 December 2021
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 104 (2021)
Issue 11
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.115016
arXiv:
2103.12003
Copyrights:
Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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