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The W-boson mass (mw = (80.4335 ± 0.0094) GeV) measured by the Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration is greater than the standard model (SM) prediction at a confidence level of 7σ, strongly suggesting the presence of new particles or fields. In the literature, various new particles and/or fields have been introduced to explain the astrophysical and experimental data, and their presence, in principle, may also enhance the W-boson mass. In this study, we investigate axion-like particle (ALP), dark photon (DP), and chameleon dark energy (DE) models for a solution to the W-boson mass excess. We find that the ALP and DP interpretations have been significantly narrowed down by global electroweak fits. The possibility of attributing the W-boson mass anomaly to the chameleon DE is ruled out by other experiments.
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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFC2203100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11921003, 11961131007, and 11653002), the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (Grant No. YSBR-006), and the USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative. We thank Y. J. Wei, T. P. Tang, Z. Q. Shen, Z. Q. Xia, Y. L. S. Tsai, L. Wu and Q. Yuan for helpful discussion.
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Yuan, GW., Zu, L., Feng, L. et al. Is the W-boson mass enhanced by the axion-like particle, dark photon, or chameleon dark energy?. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 129512 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-022-2011-8
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