Light scalars with lepton number to solve the (g-2)e anomaly

Susan Gardner, Xinshuai Yan

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Abstract

Scalars that carry lepton number can help mediate would-be lepton number-violating processes, such as neutrinoless double β decay or lepton scattering-mediated nucleon-antinucleon conversion. Here, we show that such new scalars can also solve the anomaly in precision determinations of the fine-structure constant α from atom interferometry and from the electron's anomalous magnetic moment, ae(g-2)e/2, by reducing |ae|. Study of the phenomenological constraints on these solutions favor a doubly charged scalar with mass below the GeV scale. Significant constraints arise from the measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in Møller scattering, and we consider the implications of the next-generation MOLLER experiment at Jefferson Laboratory and of an improved ae measurement.

Original languageEnglish
Article number075016
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume102
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2020

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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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