Exploring Leptophilic Dark Matter with NA64-$\mu$

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We investigate the prospects for detecting light leptophilic dark sectors with a missing-momentum experiment at NA64 running in muon mode.

• In particular, we consider models in which dark matter connects to the visible sector through a lepton- or muon-specific scalar mediator.
• These scalars can also account for the $\sim 3.5\sigma$ discrepancy between the measured and predicted values of $(g-2)_{\mu}$ .
• We emphasize the complementarity between NA64-$\mu$ and other terrestrial and astrophysical probes.