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Title: $$L_\mu - L_\tau$$ theory of Higgs flavor violation and $$(g-2)_\mu$$

Abstract

Several experiments reported hints for the violation of lepton flavor or lepton flavor universality in processes involving muons. Most prominently, there is the hint for a nonzero rate of the flavor violating Higgs decay h→τμ at the LHC, as well as the hint for lepton flavor universality violation in rare B meson decays at the LHCb. In addition, also the long-standing discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon motivates new physics connected to muons. A symmetry which violates lepton flavor universality is Lμ-Lτ: the difference of muon number and tau number. We show that adding vectorlike fermions to a Lμ-Lτ theory generates naturally an effect in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and h→τμ, while effects in other τ→μ transitions are systematically suppressed by symmetry arguments. We find that if Lμ-Lτ is gauged it is possible to also accommodate the discrepant b→sμμ data while predicting a τ→3μ and a modified h→μμ rate within reach of upcoming experiments.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
  2. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics (KICP); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  3. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1288749
Report Number(s):
PSI-PR-16-04; FERMILAB-PUB-16-131-T; arXiv:1604.08221
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; 1452807
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: D94; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Carena, Marcela, and Crivellin, Andreas. $L_\mu - L_\tau$ theory of Higgs flavor violation and $(g-2)_\mu$. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095026.
Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Carena, Marcela, & Crivellin, Andreas. $L_\mu - L_\tau$ theory of Higgs flavor violation and $(g-2)_\mu$. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095026
Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Carena, Marcela, and Crivellin, Andreas. Tue . "$L_\mu - L_\tau$ theory of Higgs flavor violation and $(g-2)_\mu$". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095026. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1288749.
@article{osti_1288749,
title = {$L_\mu - L_\tau$ theory of Higgs flavor violation and $(g-2)_\mu$},
author = {Altmannshofer, Wolfgang and Carena, Marcela and Crivellin, Andreas},
abstractNote = {Several experiments reported hints for the violation of lepton flavor or lepton flavor universality in processes involving muons. Most prominently, there is the hint for a nonzero rate of the flavor violating Higgs decay h→τμ at the LHC, as well as the hint for lepton flavor universality violation in rare B meson decays at the LHCb. In addition, also the long-standing discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon motivates new physics connected to muons. A symmetry which violates lepton flavor universality is Lμ-Lτ: the difference of muon number and tau number. We show that adding vectorlike fermions to a Lμ-Lτ theory generates naturally an effect in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and h→τμ, while effects in other τ→μ transitions are systematically suppressed by symmetry arguments. We find that if Lμ-Lτ is gauged it is possible to also accommodate the discrepant b→sμμ data while predicting a τ→3μ and a modified h→μμ rate within reach of upcoming experiments.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095026},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 9,
volume = D94,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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