# $(g-2)_{\mu}$ Versus Flavor Changing Neutral Current Induced by the Light $(B-L)_{\mu\tau}$ Boson

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a minimal $(B-L)_{)$ model with a light gauge boson to explain the muon g-2 anomaly, analyzing its flavor-changing neutral current effects and proposing experimental tests via top quark decays.

## Contribution

It presents a novel minimal $(B-L)_{)$ model with a light gauge boson addressing muon g-2, and explores its flavor physics implications and testable predictions.

## Key findings

- The model can explain muon g-2 discrepancy with a 10 MeV gauge boson.
- Flavor-changing neutral currents are induced at tree level in the quark sector.
- Searches for $t
ightarrow u/c +$ invisible can test the model with branching ratios around 10^{-4}.

## Abstract

We propose the local $(B-L)_{\mu\tau}$ model, which minimally retains the local $B-L$ extension for the sake of neutrino phenomenologies, and at the same time presents an invisible gauge boson $Z'$ with mass $\sim {\cal O}(10)$ MeV to account for the discrepancy of the muon anomalous magnetic moment. However such a scenario is challenged by flavor physics. To accommodate the correct pattern of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, we have to introduce either a $SU(2)_L$ doublet flavon or vector-like quarks plus a singlet flavon. In either case $Z'$ induces flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) in the quark sector at tree-level. We find that the former scheme cannot naturally suppress the FCNC from the down-type quark sector and thus requires a large fine-tuning to avoid the stringent $K \to \pi \nu\bar \nu$ bound. Whereas the latter scheme, in which FCNC merely arises in the up-type quark sector, is still free of strong constraint. In particular, it opens a new window to test our scenario by searching for flavor-changing top quark decay mode $t \rightarrow u/c+$(invisible), and the typical branching ratio $\sim\mathcal{O}(10^{-4})$.