TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovering the physics of (g-2)μ at future muon colliders
AU - Capdevilla, Rodolfo
AU - Curtin, David
AU - Kahn, Yonatan
AU - Krnjaic, Gordan
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Asimina Arvanitaki, Doug Berry, Zackaria Chacko, Matteo Cremonesi, Aida El-Khadra, Allison Hall, Dan Hooper, Bo Jayatilaka, Jessie Shelton, Daniel Stolarski, Raman Sundrum and Nhan Tran for helpful conversations. All the authors would like to express their deep appreciation for the wanton travel and social interaction of the pre-pandemic times, which allowed the idea for this work to be conceived. The work of D. C. and R. C. was supported in part by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and by the Canada Research Chair program. The work of R. C. was supported in part by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI). Research at P. I. is supported in part by the Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. The work of Y. K. was supported in part by DOE grant DE-SC0015655. The work of G. K. is supported by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.
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© 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
PY - 2021/4/27
Y1 - 2021/4/27
N2 - The longstanding muon g-2 anomaly may indicate the existence of new particles that couple to muons, which could either be light (GeV) and weakly coupled, or heavy (≫100 GeV) with large couplings. If light new states are responsible, upcoming intensity frontier experiments will discover further evidence of new physics. However, if heavy particles are responsible, many candidates are beyond the reach of existing colliders. We show that, if the (g-2)μ anomaly is confirmed and no explanation is found at low-energy experiments, a high-energy muon collider program is guaranteed to make fundamental discoveries about our Universe. New physics scenarios that account for the anomaly can be classified as either "singlet"or "electroweak"(EW) models, involving only EW singlets or new EW-charged states respectively. We argue that a TeV-scale future muon collider will discover all possible singlet model solutions to the anomaly. If this does not yield a discovery, the next step would be a O(10 TeV) muon collider. Such a machine would either discover new particles associated with high-scale EW model solutions to the anomaly, or empirically prove that nature is fine-tuned, both of which would have profound consequences for fundamental physics.
AB - The longstanding muon g-2 anomaly may indicate the existence of new particles that couple to muons, which could either be light (GeV) and weakly coupled, or heavy (≫100 GeV) with large couplings. If light new states are responsible, upcoming intensity frontier experiments will discover further evidence of new physics. However, if heavy particles are responsible, many candidates are beyond the reach of existing colliders. We show that, if the (g-2)μ anomaly is confirmed and no explanation is found at low-energy experiments, a high-energy muon collider program is guaranteed to make fundamental discoveries about our Universe. New physics scenarios that account for the anomaly can be classified as either "singlet"or "electroweak"(EW) models, involving only EW singlets or new EW-charged states respectively. We argue that a TeV-scale future muon collider will discover all possible singlet model solutions to the anomaly. If this does not yield a discovery, the next step would be a O(10 TeV) muon collider. Such a machine would either discover new particles associated with high-scale EW model solutions to the anomaly, or empirically prove that nature is fine-tuned, both of which would have profound consequences for fundamental physics.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.075028
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.075028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105432871
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 103
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 7
M1 - 075028
ER -