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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
Volume 19, Issue 13, Pages 2183-2206Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X04018117
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non-standard Higgs; new physics; bottomonium leptonic decays; lepton universality
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In this work, we examine the possible existence of new physics beyond the standard model which could modify the branching fractions of the leptonic (mainly tauonic) decays of bottomonium vector resonances below the BB threshold. The decay width is factorized as the product of two pieces: (a) the probability of an intermediate pseudoscalar color-singlet b (b) over bar state (coupling to the dominant Fock state of the Upsilon via a magnetic dipole transition) and a soft (undetected) photon; (b) the annihilation width of the b (b) over bar pair into two leptons, mediated by a non-standard CP-odd Higgs boson of mass about 10 GeV, introducing a quadratic dependence on the lepton mass in the partial width. The process would be unwittingly ascribed to the gamma leptonic channel thereby (slightly) breaking lepton universality. A possible mixing of the pseudoscalar Higgs and bottomonium resonances is also considered. Finally, several experimental signatures to check out the validity of the conjecture are discussed.
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