Non-minimal $331$ model for Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in $b\to s\ell \ell$ decays

Abstract

331 models constitute an extension of the Standard Model (SM) obtained by enlarging the SM gauge group $SU(3{)}_{\text{C}}\times SU(2{)}_{\text{L}}\times U(1{)}_Y$ to the group $SU(3{)}_{\text{C}}\times SU(3{)}_{\text{L}}\times U(1{)}_X$. We investigate how a non-minimal 331 model may embed lepton flavour universality violating contributions to $b\to s\ell \ell$ processes without introducing lepton flavour violation, as suggested by the recent LHCb measurements of the ratios $R_K$ and $R_{K^{\ast }}$. We discuss the model-independent scenarios of New Physics in $b\to s\ell \ell$ currently favoured by the data that could be accommodated by this model and consider a few phenomenological constraints on this model.

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D