Journal of High Energy Physics (Jun 2020)

Muon and electron g − 2 and lepton masses in flavor models

  • Lorenzo Calibbi,
  • M. L. López-Ibáñez,
  • Aurora Melis,
  • Oscar Vives

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2020)087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 6
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Abstract The stringent experimental bound on μ → eγ is compatible with a simultaneous and sizable new physics contribution to the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments (g − 2)ℓ (ℓ = e, μ), only if we assume a non-trivial flavor structure of the dipole operator coefficients. We propose a mechanism in which the realization of the (g − 2)ℓ correction is manifestly related to the mass generation through a flavor symmetry. A radiative flavon correction to the fermion mass gives a contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment. In this framework, we introduce a chiral enhancement from a non-trivial O $$ \mathcal{O} $$ (1) quartic coupling of the scalar potential. We show that the muon and electron anomalies can be simultaneously explained in a vast region of the parameter space with predicted vector-like mediators of masses as large as Mχ ∈ [0.6, 2.5] TeV.

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