Speaker
Anders Eller Thomsen
(University of Bern)
Description
Scalar leptoquarks are popular mediators in new physics explanations of the experimental anomalies in $ b \to s \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays and the muon $g-2$; however, the non-observation of charged lepton flavor violation and proton decay impose severe constraints on their interactions. We present a novel protection mechanism in the form of a gauged, lepton-flavored U(1) symmetry, which is broken by a scalar condensate to accommodate neutrino masses with a type-I seesaw. An exact remnant discrete $ Z_9 $ symmetry renders the proton exactly stable to all orders in the effective field theory expansion. This framework easily accommodates leptoquark explanations of the aforementioned anomalies without the dangerous interactions.
Primary author
Anders Eller Thomsen
(University of Bern)
