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Clockwork graviton contributions to muon $g-2$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-02-28 v3

Abstract

The clockwork mechanism for gravity introduces a tower of massive graviton modes, "clockwork gravitons," with a very compressed mass spectrum, whose interaction strengths are much stronger than that of massless gravitons. In this work, we compute the lowest order contributions of the clockwork gravitons to the anomalous magnetic moment, g2g-2, of muon in the context of extra dimensional model with a five dimensional Planck mass, M5M_5. We find that the total contributions are rather insensitive to the detailed model parameters, and determined mostly by the value of M5M_5. In order to account for the current muon g2g-2 anomaly, M5M_5 should be around 0.2 TeV0.2~{\rm TeV}, and the size of the extra dimension has to be quite large, l5107l_5 \gtrsim 10^{-7}\,m. For M51 TeVM_5\gtrsim1~{\rm TeV}, the clockwork graviton contributions are too small to explain the current muon g2g-2 anomaly. We also compare the clockwork graviton contributions with other extra dimension models such as Randall-Sundrum models or large extra dimension models. We find that the leading contributions in the small curvature limit are universal, but the cutoff-independent subleading contributions vary for different background geometries and the clockwork geometry gives the smallest subleading contributions.

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@article{arxiv.1706.09376,
  title  = {Clockwork graviton contributions to muon $g-2$},
  author = {Deog Ki Hong and Du Hwan Kim and Chang Sub Shin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09376},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures: v3 minor corrections, to appear in PRD

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