posted on 2013-11-12, 00:00authored byVernon 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.
Funding
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.