An Axial-Vector Leptophilic Fifth Force Sourced by Solar Neutrinos
Abstract
We investigate long-range, purely leptophilic axial-vector interactions mediated by a light gauge boson that couples to charged leptons and, by weak symmetry, to left-handed neutrinos. We analyze two realizations, a minimal effective model with muon-only couplings and an anomaly-free axial with inter-generation cancellations. In both cases, the solar neutrino flux acts as an extended current that sources a macroscopic field at Earth, with spatial components aligned along the Sun-Earth direction. This field produces a distinctive signature in storage-ring measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, , namely a diurnal, sign-changing contribution that is positive during daytime and negative at night, superimposed on a time-independent positive offset. We obtain bounds in both model frameworks for a light, effectively massless mediator. For completeness, we map the solar-neutrino-sourced potential to electron spin-sensor experiments and find in the electron channel.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.20672,
title = {An Axial-Vector Leptophilic Fifth Force Sourced by Solar Neutrinos},
author = {Rundong Fang and Ji-Heng Guo and Jia Liu and Xiao-Ping Wang and YanLi Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20672},
year = {2025}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures