Signals of a New Gauge Boson from IceCube and Muon $g-2$

Abstract

A $Z^{\prime }$ boson associated with a broken $U(1{)}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ gauge symmetry offers an economical solution to the long-standing $g_{\mu }-2$ anomaly, confirmed and strengthened by recent measurements at Fermilab. Here, we revisit the impact of such a $Z^{\prime }$ on the spectrum of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, as measured by the IceCube experiment. This spectrum has been observed to exhibit a dip-like feature at $E_{\nu }\sim 0.2-1\mathrm{PeV}$, which could plausibly arise from the physics of the sources themselves, but could also be the consequence of high-energy neutrinos resonantly scattering with the cosmic neutrino background, mediated by a $Z^{\prime }$ with a mass on the order of $m_{Z^{\prime }}\sim 10\mathrm{MeV}$. In this study, we calculate the impact of such a $Z^{\prime }$ on the high-energy neutrino spectrum for a variety of model parameters and source distributions. For couplings that can resolve the $g_{\mu }-2$ anomaly, we find that this model could self-consistently produce a spectral feature that is consistent with IceCube's measurement, in particular if the neutrinos observed by IceCube predominantly originate from high-redshift sources.

15 pages, 11 figures

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