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Conserved Currents are Not Anomaly-Safe

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

New vector bosons that are coupled to conserved currents in the Standard Model exhibit enhanced rates below the electroweak scale from anomalous triangle amplitudes, leading to (energy/vector mass)2^2 enhancements to rare Z decays and flavor-changing meson decays into the longitudinally polarized vector boson. In the case of a vector boson gauging U(1)BLU(1)_{B-L}, the mass gap between the top quark and the remaining SM fermions leads to (energy/vector mass)2^2 enhancements for processes with momentum transfer below the top mass. In addition, we examine the case of an intergenerational U(1)B3L2U(1)_{B_3 - L_2} that has been proposed to resolve the (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu anomaly with an MeV scale DM candidate, and we find that these enhanced processes constrain the entire parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.2401.02483,
  title  = {Conserved Currents are Not Anomaly-Safe},
  author = {Tyler B. Smith and Tim M. P. Tait},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.02483},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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