Explaining lepton-flavor non-universality and self-interacting dark matter with $L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }$

Abstract

Experimental hints for lepton-flavor universality violation in the muon's magnetic moment as well as neutral- and charged-current $B$-meson decays require Standard-Model extensions by particles such as leptoquarks that generically lead to unacceptably fast rates of charged lepton flavor violation and proton decay. We propose a model based on a gauged $U(1{)}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ that eliminates all these unwanted decays by symmetry rather than finetuning and efficiently explains $(g-2{)}_{\mu }$, $R_{K^{(\ast )}}$, $R_{D^{(\ast )}}$, and neutrino masses. The $U(1{)}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ furthermore acts as a stabilizing symmetry for dark matter and the light $Z^{\prime }$ gauge boson mediates velocity-dependent dark-matter self-interactions that resolve the small-scale structure problems. Lastly, even the Hubble tension can be ameliorated via the light $Z^{\prime }$ contribution to the relativistic degrees of freedom.

8 pages and references, 6 figures; fixed pdf issues and added references, matches EPJC version

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