Palatable leptoquark scenarios for lepton flavor violation in exclusive b [arrow right] s ^sub 1^ ^sub 2^ modes

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and/or non-USASCII text omitted; see image) Abstract We examine various scenarios that involve a light ...(1 TeV) leptoquark state and select those which are compatible with the current experimental values for (B s[arrow right][mu][mu]), ..., and which lead to predictions consistent with other experimental data. We show that two such scenarios are phenomenologically plausible, namely the one with a doublet of scalar leptoquarks of hypercharge 1/6, and the one with a triplet of vector leptoquarks of hypercharge 2/3. We also argue that a model with a singlet scalar leptoquark of hypercharge 1/3 is not viable. Using the present experimental data as constraints, it is shown that the exclusive lepton flavor violating decays, (B s[arrow right][mu]τ),(B[arrow right]K[mu]τ) and (B[arrow right]K [mu]τ), can be as large as ...