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Can electron and muon $g-2$ anomalies be jointly explained in SUSY?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-04-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The FNAL+BNL measurements for muon g2g-2 is 4.2σ4.2\sigma above the SM prediction, and the Berkeley 133^{133}Cs measurement for the fine-structure constant αem\alpha_{\rm em} leads to the SM prediction for electron g2g-2 which is 2.4σ2.4\sigma above the experimental value. Hence, a joint explanation of both anomalies requires a positive contribution to muon g2g-2 and a negative contribution to electron g2g-2, which is rather challenging. In this work we explore the possibility of such a joint explanation in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Assuming no universality between smuon and selectron soft masses, we find out a part of parameter space for a joint explanation at 2σ2\sigma level, i.e., μM1,μM2<0\mu M_1,\mu M_2<0, mL1,mE2<200m_{L1}, m_{E2}<200 GeV, mL2m_{L2} being much larger than the soft masses of other sleptons, M1<125|M_1|<125 GeV and μ<400\mu<400 GeV. This part of parameter space can survive LHC and LEP constraints, but gives an over-abundance for dark matter if the bino-like lightest neutralino is assumed to be the dark matter candidate. With the assumption that the dark matter candidate is a superWIMP (say a pseudo-goldstino in multi-sector SUSY breaking scenarios, whose mass can be as light as GeV and produced from the late-decay of the thermally freeze-out lightest neutralino), the dark matter problem can be avoided. So, we conclude that the MSSM may give a joint explanation for the muon and electron g2g-2 anomalies at 2σ2\sigma level (the muon g2g-2 anomaly can be even ameliorated to 1σ1\sigma).

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@article{arxiv.2107.04962,
  title  = {Can electron and muon $g-2$ anomalies be jointly explained in SUSY?},
  author = {Song Li and Yang Xiao and Jin Min Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04962},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures