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23–26 Sept 2025
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Disentangling left and right-handed neutrino effects in $ B \to K^{(*)} \nu \nu $

25 Sept 2025, 15:15
15m
Bldg. 1b, seminar room 4a (DESY)

Bldg. 1b, seminar room 4a

DESY

Particle Phenomenology Parallel Sessions Thursday Pheno 2

Speaker

Luighi Leal (University of Sao Paulo)

Description

The first observation of $\mathcal{B}\left(B^+\rightarrow K^+\nu\nu\right)$ by the Belle II experiment lies almost $3\sigma$ away from the Standard Model expectation. In this work we study this result in the SMEFT, extended by a light right-handed neutrino. We explore the correlations between the measured decay rate and other observables, such as $\mathcal{B}\left(B\rightarrow K^*\nu\nu\right)$ and $F_L\left(B\rightarrow K^*\nu\nu\right)$, showing that they could disentangle among scenarios involving left-handed neutrinos and those with the right-handed ones. Furthermore, we find that the high-$p_T$ tails of Drell-Yan processes studied at LHC provide important constraints that help us exclude some of the scenarios consistent with the Belle II result.

Primary authors

Luighi Leal (University of Sao Paulo) Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz

Presentation materials