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- Title
Muon g − 2 from millicharged hidden confining sector.
- Authors
Bai, Yang; Lee, Seung J.; Son, Minho; Ye, Fang
- Abstract
We provide a novel explanation to the muon g − 2 excess with new physics contributions at the two-loop level. In this scenario, light millicharged particles are introduced to modify the photon vacuum polarization that contributes to muon g − 2 at one additional loop. The muon g − 2 excess can be explained with the millicharged particle mass mχ around 10 MeV and the product of the multiplicity factor and millicharge squared of Nχε2 ∼ 10−3. The minimal model faces severe constraints from direct searches at fixed-target experiments and astrophysical observables. However, if the millicharged particles are also charged under a hidden confining gauge group SU(Nχ) with a confinement scale of MeV, hidden-sector hadrons are unstable and can decay into neutrinos, which makes this scenario consistent with existing constraints. This explanation can be well tested at low-energy lepton colliders such as BESIII and Belle II as well as other proposed fixed-target experiments.
- Subjects
VACUUM polarization; POLARIZED photons; NEUTRINOS; MUONS; HADRONS
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, Vol 2021, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP11(2021)019