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The hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to $a_{\mu}$ from full lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2017-08-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We determine the contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon from the αQED2\alpha^2_{\mathrm{QED}} hadronic vacuum polarization diagram using full lattice QCD and including u/du/d quarks with physical masses for the first time. We use gluon field configurations that include uu, dd, ss and cc quarks in the sea at multiple values of the lattice spacing, multiple u/du/d masses and multiple volumes that allow us to include an analysis of finite-volume effects. We obtain a result for aμHVP,LOa_{\mu}^{\mathrm{HVP,LO}} of 667(6)(12)667(6)(12), where the first error is from the lattice calculation and the second includes systematic errors from missing QED and isospin-breaking effects and from quark-line disconnected diagrams. Our result implies a discrepancy between the experimental determination of aμa_{\mu} and the Standard Model of 3σ\sigma.

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@article{arxiv.1601.03071,
  title  = {The hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to $a_{\mu}$ from full lattice QCD},
  author = {Bipasha Chakraborty and C. T. H. Davies and P. G. de Oliviera and J. Koponen and G. P. Lepage and R. van de Water},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03071},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages, 10 figures. Discussion of method extended with additional tests and figures added. Typographical errors corrected