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Magnetic Field Measurement and Analysis for the Muon g-2 Experiment

Instrumentation and Detectors 2020-01-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Muon g-2 Experiment (E989) at Fermilab measures the muon magnetic anomaly, aiming to resolve the greater than 3σ\sigma discrepancy between the previous measurement and the Standard Model calculation with an improved precision of 140 part-per-billion (ppb). In E989, the muon beam is stored in a ring magnet. The spin precession frequency ωa\omega_{a} is measured by counting the decay positrons in 24 calorimeters, and the magnetic field is measured by nuclear magnet resonance (NMR) probes. An in-vacuum field scanning system consisting of NMR probes and read-out electronics has been implemented to measure the magnetic field applied to the muon beam. An additional 378 NMR probes, placed at fixed locations outside the vacuum chamber, monitor the field drift in between field scans. A high-accuracy probe was designed for calibrating the probes in the scanner. In this presentation, the magnetic field measurement hardware system and analysis methods will be described in detail. The progress of the Run-1 data analysis and improvements in Run-2 will be presented as well.

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@article{arxiv.1909.13742,
  title  = {Magnetic Field Measurement and Analysis for the Muon g-2 Experiment},
  author = {Ran Hong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13742},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the 2019 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (DPF2019), July 29-August 2, 2019, Northeastern University, Boston, C1907293. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1810.03729