Prospects of five-dimensional Lμ−Lτ gauge interactions in the light of elastic neutrino-electron scatterings: The scope of the DUNE near detector

Abstract

We discuss the future prospects of a minimally five-dimensional version of the well-motivated scenario for addressing the discrepancy in the muon anomalous magnetic moment, the U(1)Lμ−Lτ extension of the standard model gauge symmetry. Here, multiple associated massive gauge bosons appear thanks to the five-dimensional U(1)Lμ−Lτ gauge symmetry, and they contribute to the muon (g−2) and also other processes. We focus on the powerful probe of elastic neutrino-electron scatterings since the upcoming DUNE experiment will explore MeV-scale uncharted regions by previous experiments (e.g., CHARM-II and Borexino) in the near future. We found that even with small kinetic mixing parameters, much of the parameter space, including those satisfying the muon (g−2) process, can be probed using several years of data from the DUNE experiment, focusing on the near detector. In our scenario, interference effects between intermediate-state gauge bosons play an important role. Our results include comparisons between flat and warped extra dimensions. Published by the American Physical Society 2024