Searching for Flavored Gauge Bosons

Understand

Standard Model may allow an extended gauge sector with anomaly-free flavored gauge symmetries, such as $L_{i} - L_{j}$, $B_{i} - L_{j}$, and $B - 3L_{i}$, where $i,j=1,2,3$ are flavor indices.

• We investigate phenomenological implications of the new flavored gauge boson $Z^{\prime}$ in the above three classes of gauge symmetries.
• Focusing on the gauge boson mass above 5 GeV, we use the lepton universality test in the $Z$ and $\tau/\mu$ decays, LEP searches, LHC searches, neutrino trident production bound, and LHC $Z\rightarrow 4\mu$ searches to put constraints on the $g^{\prime}-M_{Z^{\prime}}$ plane.
• When $L_1$ is involved, the LEP bounds on the $e^{-}e^{+} \rightarrow \ell^{-}\ell^{+}$ processes give the most stringent bounds, while the LHC bound becomes the strongest constraints in the large $M_{Z^{\prime}}$ region when $B_{i}$ is involved.