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

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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  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)

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.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1288749
Report Number(s):
PSI-PR-16-04; FERMILAB-PUB-16-131-T; arXiv:1604.08221; 1452807
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. D94, Issue 9; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 71 works
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