https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10635-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A model of vector-like leptons for the muon 
and the W boson mass
Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, 06974, Seoul, South Korea
Received:
30
May
2022
Accepted:
23
July
2022
Published online:
2
August
2022
We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a vector-like lepton and a local 
symmetry, motivated by the recent experimental anomalies in the muon and the W boson mass. The symmetry is spontaneously broken by the VEVs of the dark Higgs scalar and the second Higgs doublet, giving rise to the mixing between the muon and the vector-like lepton. As a result, we obtain the desirable corrections to the muon and the W boson mass simultaneously, dominantly due to the 
gauge interactions for the vector-like lepton and the second Higgs doublet, respectively. We also discuss the consistency of the model with the Z boson decay width, the Higgs couplings and the dilepton bounds.
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