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A Family-nonuniversal $U(1)^\prime$ Model for Excited Beryllium Decays (1911.10482v3)

Published 24 Nov 2019 in hep-ph

Abstract: Excited beryllium has been observed to decay into electron-positron pairs with a $6.8~\sigma$ anomaly. The process is properly explained by a 17 MeV proto-phobic vector boson. In present work, we consider a family-nonuniversal $U(1){\prime}$ that is populated by a $U(1){\prime}$ gauge boson $Z\prime$ and a scalar field $S$, charged under $U(1){\prime}$ and singlet under the Standard Model (SM) gauge symmetry. The SM chiral fermion and scalar fields are charged under $U(1){\prime}$ and we provide them to satisfy the anomaly-free conditions. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix is reproduced correctly by higher-dimension Yukawa interactions facilitated by $S$. The vector and axial-vector current couplings of the $Z\prime$ boson to the first generation of fermions do satisfy all the bounds from the various experimental data. The $Z\prime$ boson can have kinetic mixing with the hypercharge gauge boson and $S$ can directly couple to the SM-like Higgs field. The kinetic mixing of $Z\prime$ with the hypercharge gauge boson, as we show by a detailed analysis, generates the observed beryllium anomaly. We find that beryllium anomaly can be properly explained by a MeV-scale sector with a minimal new field content. The minimal model we construct forms a framework in which various anomalous SM decays can be discussed.

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