We determine the contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon from the αQED2 hadronic vacuum polarization diagram using full lattice QCD and including u/d quarks with physical masses for the first time. We use gluon field configurations that include u, d, s and c quarks in the sea at multiple values of the lattice spacing, multiple u/d masses and multiple volumes that allow us to include an analysis of finite-volume effects. We obtain a result for aμHVP,LO of 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 aμ and the Standard Model of 3σ.
@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