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Flavor Structure of Warped Extra Dimension Models

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Kaustubh Agashe, Gilad Perez, Amarjit Soni

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 10 Aug 2004 · 70 references

Pith's verdict: A solid, well-organized spurion analysis of RS flavor that earns its structural results; the '20 times the EDM bound' headline is soft by a factor of several and the abstract overstates its precision.

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CitationAmarjit Soni, Gilad Perez, Kaustubh Agashe. "Flavor Structure of Warped Extra Dimension Models." arXiv:hep-ph/0408134 (2004). https://pith.science/paper/72574AWC
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A warped extra-dimension model with light Kaluza-Klein modes predicts a neutron electric dipole moment about 20 times the experimental bound.

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The paper asks whether a class of warped extra-dimension models with a bulk custodial symmetry and Kaluza-Klein masses near a few TeV has a flavor structure that can be computed once and for all, rather than tuned process by process. Using a spurion analysis, the authors argue that the zero-mode profiles — how strongly each Standard Model fermion wavefunction sits near the TeV brane — control all flavor violation, so the same few parameters fix $B$ mixing, rare decays, radiative transitions, and CP-violating dipole moments. The sharpest result is that with anarchic five-dimensional Yukawa matrices and $m_{KK} sim 3$ TeV, the framework predicts a neutron electric dipole moment of order $10^{-24},e,mathrm{cm}$, roughly $20$ times the experimental bound, which the authors call a warped-extra-dimension CP problem. If correct, the model is not only a source of possible $B$-factory anomalies but is already under pressure from precision CP tests, and its flavor signals are tightly correlated.

What carries the argument

The machinery is a spurion analysis performed in the basis where the bulk mass matrices are diagonal. The matrices $F_{Q,u,d}=mathrm{diag}(f^{-1}_{Q_i,u_i,d_i})$, with $f_{x_i}$ measuring the zero-mode wavefunction at the TeV brane, transform as bi-fundamentals of the Standard Model and diagonal Kaluza-Klein flavor groups; together with the $5$D Yukawa matrices they are the only sources of flavor violation in the Kaluza-Klein theory. The small light-fermion $f^{-1}$ entries give an approximate flavor symmetry, and the requirement that flavor violation vanish when $F$ is proportional to the identity gives the RS-GIM mechanism; this is why the third generation, especially the top, drives the observable new physics.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the flavor-changing couplings of the Kaluza-Klein modes in this model class are governed by five spurions: the two $5$D Yukawa matrices and the three diagonal matrices $F_{Q,u,d}=mathrm{diag}(f^{-1}_{Q_i,u_i,d_i})$ built from the zero-mode wavefunctions at the TeV brane. Because the light-fermion entries are small and only the non-universal parts of $F$ break flavor, the theory has an approximate flavor symmetry and a warped analogue of the GIM mechanism; the top-related entries therefore dominate the new physics. The authors use this structure to predict $Delta F=2$ mixing comparable to the Standard Model, sizable semileptonic $Delta F=1$ and right-handed radiative $B$ operators, and, most sharply, a one-loop neutron EDM about $20$ times the bound for anarchic Yukawas and $m_{KK} sim 3$ TeV. The same spurion relations make these signals correlated, so measuring one would constrain the others.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the five-dimensional Yukawa matrices are anarchic — every entry complex and of order unity — with Kaluza-Klein masses near $3$ TeV and the $5$D Yukawa coupling pushed to its perturbativity ceiling; the paper itself notes that allowing hierarchical Yukawas changes the conclusions.

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  • $Delta F=2$ observables, including $B_s o psi phi$ and $B o phi K_S$ CP asymmetries, can differ from Standard Model expectations by order one, so the successful CKM fit becomes a coincidence in this framework.
  • Semileptonic $Delta F=1$ modes such as $B o X_s ell^+ ell^-$ and $K o pi u ar u$ can receive comparable new physics, with altered lepton forward-backward asymmetry and direct CP violation.
  • $b o s gamma$ can contain a right-handed photon amplitude comparable to the Standard Model $C_7$, which would show up in photon polarization or time-dependent CP in $B o K^* gamma$.
  • The neutron EDM is predicted at about $10^{-24},e,mathrm{cm}$ for $m_{KK} sim 3$ TeV; raising the KK scale to about $4$ TeV and lowering the Yukawa coupling reduces it by roughly a factor of ten while leaving $Delta F=2$ effects similar.
  • Charm and top sectors also carry signals: $D^0$ mixing with non-standard CP phases in $D^0 o K_S pi^0$, and rare top decays $t o c gamma,Z,g$.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The EDM is a cleaner discriminant than the $B$-mixing phases because it does not require disentangling a new phase from hadronic matrix elements; a null EDM at the $10^{-26},e,mathrm{cm}$ scale would force either a heavier KK scale or a departure from anarchic Yukawas.
  • If both a large $B_s o psi phi$ phase and an EDM near $10^{-24},e,mathrm{cm}$ were seen, the two would pin the same combination of $f_{Q3}$ and $m_{KK}$, giving a consistency test of the spurion picture.
  • In the dual strongly coupled picture, the EDM is a measure of CP violation in the composite sector, while the small light-fermion couplings are a measure of how elementary those fermions are; this suggests the CP problem is really a statement about composite CP phases.
  • The paper's sharpest numbers depend on choosing anarchic Yukawas rather than deriving them; if a UV completion generates hierarchical Yukawas, the same spurion machinery would still organize the flavor violation but the predicted EDM and FCNC sizes would no longer be fixed.
Original abstract

We recently showed, in hep-ph/0406101, that warped extra dimensional models with bulk custodial symmetry and few TeV KK masses lead to striking signals at $B$-factories. In this paper, using a spurion analysis, we systematically study the flavor structure of models that belong to the above class. In particular we find that the profiles of the zero modes, which are similar in all these models, essentially control the underlying flavor structure. This implies that our results are robust and model independent in this class of models. We discuss in detail the origin of the signals in B-physics. We also briefly study other NP signatures that arise in rare K decays ($K \to \pi \nu \nu$), in rare top decays [$t \to c \gamma (Z, gluon)$] and the possibilty of CP asymmetries in $D^0$ decays to CP eigenstates such as $K_S \pi^0$ and others. Finally we demonstrate that with light KK masses, $\sim3$ TeV, the above class of models with anarchic $5D$ Yukawas has a ``CP problem'' since contributions to the neutron electric dipole moment are roughly 20 times larger than the current experimental bound. Using AdS/CFT correspondence, these extra-dimensional models are dual to a purely 4D strongly coupled conformal Higgs sector thus enhancing their appeal.

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We recently showed, in hep-ph/0406101, that warped extra dimensional models with bulk custodial symmetry and few TeV KK masses lead to striking signals at $B$-factories. In this paper, using a spurion analysis, we systematically study the flavor structure of models that belong to the above class. In particular we find that the profiles of the zero modes, which are similar in all these models, essentially control the underlying flavor structure. This implies that our results are robust and model independent in this class of models. We discuss in detail the origin of the signals in B-physics. We also briefly study other NP signatures that arise in rare K decays ($K \to \pi \nu \nu$), in rare top decays [$t \to c \gamma (Z, gluon)$] and the possibilty of CP asymmetries in $D^0$ decays to CP eigenstates such as $K_S \pi^0$ and others. Finally we demonstrate that with light KK masses, $\sim3$ TeV, the above class of models with anarchic $5D$ Yukawas has a ``CP problem'' since contributions to the neutron electric dipole moment are roughly 20 times larger than the current experimental bound. Using AdS/CFT correspondence, these extra-dimensional models are dual to a purely 4D strongly coupled conformal Higgs sector thus enhancing their appeal.

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s2 In particular we find that the profiles of the zero modes, which are similar in all these models, essentially control the underlying flavor structure. result 0.96 0.94 0.50 asserted 1.00
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s5 We also briefly study other NP signatures that arise in rare K decays ($K \to \pi \nu \nu$), in rare top decays [$t \to c \gamma (Z, gluon)$] and the possibilty of CP asymmetries in $D^0$ decays to CP eigenstates such as $K_S \pi^0$ and others. contribution 0.95 0.82 0.05 asserted 0.63
s6 Finally we demonstrate that with light KK masses, $\sim3$ TeV, the above class of models with anarchic $5D$ Yukawas has a ``CP problem'' since contributions to the neutron electric dipole moment are roughly 20 times larger than the current experimental bound. result 0.87 0.89 0.29 asserted 1.00
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Figure 1. Contributions to ∆F = 2 processes from KK gluon exchange. 5.1.1 “Coincidence” problem Within the SM, experimental data related to the above observables is translated into constraints on, ρ and η, the less constrained Wolfenstein parameters. The other two parameters, A and λ are known to a good accuracy from various SM tree level processes which are insensitive to our NP contributions. The fact that the SM can successfully fit, within errors, five independent measurements of ρ, η supports the SM CKM paradigm [28, 29, 30]. Within our framework, however, this SM successful fit is a pure
Figure 2. Current constraints on the unitary triangle [32].
Figure 3. Illustration: future constraints on the unitary tri
Figure 4. Contributions to b → sγ from KK gluon in the loop. We next move to discuss the contributions with KK fermions in the loop (ii)+(iii). In term of spurions they are given by C′7γ ∝ hFQ λu 5Dλ†u 5D + λd 5Dλ †d 5 D  λ d 5 D Fd i 32 , (42) where the first (second) term in the parenthesis comes from computing the diagram in fig. 6 (fig. 5). Before continuing we note that in the Higgsless case there are similar contri￾butions as follows: the Higgs line should be replaced by a longitudinal W, Z line which is W5 , Z 5 in the Higgsless models. In addition, just as in the model
Figure 5. Contributions to b → sγ from Yukawa interactions with down type KK quarks. bL γ sR FQλu 5D λd 5DFd H± u(n) Rλ†u 5D u(l) L u(m) L
Figure 6. Contributions to b → sγ from Yukawa interactions with down and up type KK quarks. 5.4 Flavor diagonal CPV and electric dipole moments It is well known that almost any SM extention contains new sources of CPV. Such sources generically contribute to two classes of CPV observables. The first is related to what we discussed above, that is CPV that occurs through flavor mixing. Several experiments have measured CPV of the above type in the K and B systems and it was found to be sizeable. The second class is related to flavor diagonal CPV. This type of CPV has not been observed yet and e

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  • Recalled this paper's spurion analysis in the mass insertion approximation to obtain the flavor structure for the Wilson coefficients of the dipole operators.

    CP violation and FCNC in a warped A4 flavor model (2011) · 0.95 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting

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  • Using the central value of $c_t_L$ given by Agashe [ref] , the number of free parameters is reduced to the $t'$ mass and the fermion mass parameter $c_t^'_L$, which describes the location of the $t'$ in the bulk.

    Fourth Generation t-prime in Extensions of the Standard Model · Randall-Sundrum Model · 0.99

  • To illustrate this point, we have used the set of quark bulk mass parameters given in [ref] (see also [ref] and [ref] ), which is consistent with all experimental constraints concerning quark masses and mixing, to compute the first KK masses of the associated spin-3/2 resonances, $Q_i, U_i$ and $D_i$, $i=1,2,3$.

    On the possibility of light string resonances at the LHC and Tevatron from Randall-Sundrum throats · Spin-3/2 excitations in the Randall-Sundrum model · 0.96

  • The perturbativity constraint on the 5D top Yukawa coupling $|y_t|≲π$, together with the matching to the $$ top mass at the KK scale $m_t(1.8 )≃140$ [ref] and the constraint $c_t≳-0.2$[This constraint ensures that the contribution through mixing from $b̃$, the partner of the $SU(2)_R$ top, is sufficiently suppressed in $Zbb̅$ [ref] .], implies instead the upper bound $c^q_L<0.42$.

    An A4 flavor model for quarks and leptons in warped geometry · The quark and charged lepton sector · 0.81

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  • These are the features in this work, which are distinguishable from other approaches to tackle the flavor problem in the extra-dimension framework [ref] .

    Towards a Model of Quarks and Leptons · Introduction · 0.83

  • Our result differ from the more generic case (without LMFV) considered in [ref] (for a detailed description of the structure see e.g [ref] ) as follows.

    Natural Neutrino Masses and Mixings from Warped Geometry · UV Sensitivity With and Without Flavor Symmetry · 1.00

  • It differs also from the RS-GIM (or hierarchical wave-function) framework [ref] , where we expect similar quark-mass suppression terms, but we do not expect also the CKM factors: as shown in Section [ref], the RS-GIM scaling implies large effects in $$, relative to the SM, with minor corrections in the $B_s,d$ systems.

    Higgs-mediated FCNCs: Natural Flavour Conservation vs. Minimal Flavour Violation · Introducing flavour-blind phases · 0.96

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  • Randall-Sundrum (RS) models of warped extra dimensions predict that there are new tree level contributions to $D^0-D^0$ mixing from the exchange of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gluons [ref] .

    Lessons from Recent Measurements of D-\bar D Mixing · Warped extra dimensions · 0.84

  • These effects are potentially important for deriving constraints on the model from precision measurements, such as electroweak precision tests (EWPT) [ref] and flavor observables [ref] .

    Dynamical origin of flavor hierarchies in a warped extra dimension · Introduction · 0.80

  • Specifically, it has been shown that warped geometry provides an automatic built-in GIM mechanism which suppresses tree-level flavor changing neutral currents [ref] .

    5D UED: Flat and Flavorless · Flavor constraints · 0.83

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