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We present results for the short-distance window observable of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon $g-2$, computed via the time-momentum representation (TMR) in lattice QCD. A key novelty of our calculation is the…
Results on the lowest-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon magnetic anomaly are presented. They are based on the latest published experimental data used as input to the dispersion integral. Thus recent results on tau…
We report on our ongoing project to determine the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon $g-2$, using ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ flavours of O($a$) improved Wilson quarks generated by the CLS effort, with pion…
Recently, it was shown that insertions of hadronic vacuum polarization at O(alpha^4) generate non-negligible effects in the calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. This result raises the question if other hadronic diagrams…
Hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) and light-by-light scattering (HLBL) are crucial for evaluating the Standard Model predictions concerning the muon's anomalous magnetic moment. However, direct first-principle lattice gauge theory-based…
We compare the isospin-one, vector-current hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) obtained from isospin-symmetric lattice QCD with that obtained from a dispersive representation employing inclusive hadronic $\tau$ decay data corrected for…
We present a lattice calculation of the leading order (LO) hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment for the connected light and strange quarks, $a^{\rm W}_{{\rm con}, l/s}$ in the widely used…
We present the first lattice QCD calculation of the next-to-leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment with sub-percent precision. We employ the time-momentum representation for the…
The Hadronic Vacuum Polarization (HVP) is a dominant contribution to the theoretical uncertainty of the muon anomalous magnetic moment. The uncertainty in a lattice QCD calculation of the connected light-quark contribution to the HVP is…
Recent evaluations of the hadronic vacuum polarization contributions to the effective fine-structure constant alpha_{em}(M_Z) are summarized and commented. A new update based on corrected CMD-2 data is presented. My new estimates are Delta…
The discrepancy on the muon anomalous magnetic moment values obtained via a direct measurement and via a data-driven theory determination that uses the experimentally measured hadronic cross section, is among the long standing and most…
A precise evaluation of the electroweak contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon requires control over all aspects of the Standard Model, ranging from Higgs physics, over multi-loop computations for bosonic and…
I discuss the possibility of estimating the shift $\delta\Delta\alpha(M_Z^2)$ on the running of the EM-coupling to the $M_Z$ scale, induced by the discrepancy $\Delta a_{\mu}$ between two precise determinations of the hadronic vacuum…
In this work we focus on the evaluation of the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution from the $\pi\pi$ channel to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_\mu$ by using the experimental $\tau\to\pi\pi\nu_\tau$ data. The…
This talk summarizes the recent developments in the evaluation of the leading order hadronic contributions to the running of the QED fine structure constant $\alpha(s)$, at $s=M_{\rm Z}^2$, and to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon…
We present an update on the determination of the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment in isospin-symmetric QCD by the Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration. The calculation is based on…
We address the contribution of the $3\pi$ channel to hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) using a dispersive representation of the $e^+e^-\to 3\pi$ amplitude. This channel gives the second-largest individual contribution to the total HVP…
The recent measurement of the $W$ boson mass by the CDF II collaboration exhibits a significant tension with the Standard Model (SM) prediction and other experimental determinations. In this work, we investigate the implications of this…
The purpose of this paper is threefold: a) Check if the rather poor Standard Model (SM) fit to all electroweak data can be improved in its minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM); b) Check what constraints present electroweak data has on…
We review Standard-Model evaluations of hadronic contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $g-2$. Most space is devoted to the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution, in view of the discrepancy between the data-based dispersive…