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Hadronic Vacuum Polarization and the MUonE proposal

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The MUonE proposal at the CERN SPS consists in extracting the value of the hadronic vacuum polarization self-energy function (HVP) from its contribution to the differential cross-section of elastic muon-electron scattering. The HVP contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment can then be obtained from a weighted integral of the measured HVP self-energy function. This, however, requires a knowledge of the HVP function in its full integration domain. This paper discusses a procedure to reconstruct the HVP function in the regions not directly accessible to measurement. The method is based on the so-called transfer theorems, due to Flajolet and Odlyzko, which we explain and adapt to HVP.

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@article{arxiv.2202.10810,
  title  = {Hadronic Vacuum Polarization and the MUonE proposal},
  author = {David Greynat and Eduardo de Rafael},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.10810},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

32 pages, 9 figures. Typos and wording corrected. Version to appear in JHEP

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