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Constraint on Parity-Violating Muonic Forces

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posted on 2013-11-12, 00:00 authored by Vernon Barger, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Wai-Yee Keung, Danny Marfatia
Using the nonobservance of missing mass events in the leptonic kaon decay K ! X, we place a strong constraint on exotic parity-violating gauge interactions of the right-handed muon. By way of illustration, we apply it to an explanation of the proton size anomaly that invokes such a new force; scenarios in which the gauge boson decays invisibly or is long lived are constrained.

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This research was supported by DOE Grants No. DE-FG02-84ER40173, No. DE-FG02- 95ER40896, and No. DE-FG02-04ER41308, by NSF Grant No. PHY-0544278, by NSC Grant No. 100-2628- M-008-003-MY4, by NCTS, and by theWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

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Vernon Barger, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Wai-Yee Keung, and Danny Marfatia, Physical Review Letters, 108, 8, 2012. © 2012 by the American Physical Society. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i8/e081802

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American Physical Society

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  • en_US

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0031-9007

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2012-02-01

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