Correlation Between Muon $g-2$ and $μ\rightarrow{e}γ$

Abstract

While the muon $g-2$ anomaly can be successfully explained by some new physics models, most of them are severely constrained by the $μ\to e γ$ bound. This tension is more transparent from the effective field theory perspective, in which the two phenomena are encoded in two very similar operators. However, with the ${\cal O}(1)$ Wilson coefficients, the current upper bound on $μ\to e γ$ indicates a new-physics cutoff scale five orders smaller than that needed to eliminate the $(g-2)_μ$ anomaly. By summarizing all the formulae from the one-loop contributions to the muon $g-2$ with the internal-particle spin not larger than 1, we point out two general methods to reconcile the conflict between the muon $g-2$ and $μ\to e γ$: the GIM mechanism and the non-universal couplings. For the latter method, we use a simple scalar leptoquark model as an illustration.

22 pages, 4 figures, updated version accepted by PRD