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Title: Signal of four muons or more from a vector-like lepton decaying to a muon-philic Z boson at the LHC

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

We propose a novel possibility to detect a very distinctive signal with more than four muons originating from pair-produced vector-like leptons decaying to a muon-philic Z' boson. These new particles are good candidates to explain the anomalies in the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the b → sℓℓ processes. The doublet (singlet) vector-like leptons lighter than 1.3 (1.0) TeV are excluded by the latest data at the LHC if BR(E → Z'μ) = 1. We also show that the excess in the signal region with more than five leptons can be explained by this scenario if the vector-like lepton is a weak singlet, with mass about 400 GeV and BR(E → Z'μ) = 0.25. The future prospects at the HL-LHC are discussed.

Research Organization:
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Institute for Basic Science (IBS); Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (MEXT)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011726; IBS-R018-D1; 18K13534
OSTI ID:
1812832
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1851541
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 104 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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