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Conserved Currents are Not Anomaly-Safe
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New vector bosons that are coupled to conserved currents in the Standard Model exhibit enhanced rates below the electroweak scale from anomalous triangle amplitudes, leading to (energy/vector mass)$^2$ enhancements to rare Z decays and flavor-changing meson decays into the longitudinally polarized vector boson. In the case of a vector boson gauging $U(1)_{B-L}$, the mass gap between the top quark and the remaining SM fermions leads to (energy/vector mass)$^2$ enhancements for processes with momentum transfer below the top mass. In addition, we examine the case of an intergenerational $U(1)_{B_3 - L_2}$ that has been proposed to resolve the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly with an MeV scale DM candidate, and we find that these enhanced processes constrain the entire parameter space.
Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, 1 table