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An Axial-Vector Leptophilic Fifth Force Sourced by Solar Neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate long-range, purely leptophilic axial-vector interactions mediated by a light gauge boson AA' 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 U(1)U(1)' with inter-generation cancellations. In both cases, the solar neutrino flux acts as an extended current that sources a macroscopic AA' 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, (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu, 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 gO(1019)g' \lesssim {O}(10^{-19}) 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 gO(1022)g' \lesssim {O}(10^{-22}) in the electron channel.

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@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