Probing light mediators at the MUonE experiment

Abstract

The MUonE experiment, that aims to provide a precise measurement of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon $g-2$ via elastic muon-electron scattering, has also the potential to explore the parameter space of light new physics. Exploiting the process ${\mu }^{-}N\to {\mu }^{-}NX$, where $N$ is the target nucleus and X is a new physics light mediator, we demonstrate that MUonE can be sensitive to new regions of parameter space for sub-GeV dark photons. In particular, thanks to its muon beam, MUonE will be able to explore uncharted parameter space regions for the $L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }$ model. Finally, we also find that MUonE can probe the parameter space of axion-like particles for different assumptions of the couplings to electrons, muons and photons.

arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures

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