High-energy cosmic neutrinos as a probe of the vector mediator scenario in light of the muon $g-2$ anomaly and Hubble tension [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.15136


In light of the recent Muon $g-2$ experiment data from Fermilab, we investigate the implications of a gauged $L_{\mu} – L_{\tau}$ model for high energy neutrino telescopes. It has been suggested that a new gauge boson at the MeV scale can both account for the Muon $g-2$ data and alleviate the tension in the Hubble parameter measurements. It also strikes signals at IceCube from the predicted resonance scattering between high-energy neutrinos and the cosmic neutrino background. We revisit this model based on the latest IceCube shower data, and perform a four-parameter fit to find a preferred region. While the data are consistent with the absence of resonant signatures from secret interactions, we find the preferred region consistent with the muon $g-2$ anomaly and Hubble tension. We demonstrate that future neutrino telescopes such as IceCube-Gen2 can probe this unique parameter space, and point out that successful measurements would infer the neutrino mass with $0.05~{\rm eV}\lesssim \Sigma m_\nu\lesssim 0.3~{\rm eV}$.

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J. Carpio, K. Murase, I. Shoemaker, et. al.
Mon, 3 May 21
18/45

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures