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Two Higgs doublet models are attractive scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, lepton-specific manifestations remain contenders to explain the observed discrepancy between the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon…
The hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu}^{\rm had, VP}$ are evaluated dispersively via a combination of experimentally measured $e^+e^-\rightarrow {\rm hadrons}$ cross section…
Dispersive approach to quantum chromodynamics is applied to the assessment of hadronic contributions to electroweak observables. The employed approach merges the corresponding perturbative input with intrinsically nonperturbative…
With the recent interest in the measured and standard model values of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, a_mu, some confusion has arisen concerning our knowledge of the hadronic contribution to a_mu. In the dispersion integral approach to…
We describe how recent determinations of exclusive-mode contributions to $a_\mu^{\rm LO,HVP}$, the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, can be used to provide, up to small…
We use the WKB approximation to uncover divergences and instances of non-commuting limits in a large class of holographic soft-wall models. We show that the infinite sum over single resonance contributions for a variety of observables…
The muon anomalous magnetic moment is one of the most precisely measured quantities in particle physics. In a recent experiment at Brookhaven it has been measured with a remarkable 14-fold improvement of the previous CERN experiment…
In this talk, I revisit and present a more comprehensive estimate of the lowest order Hadronic Vacuum Polarization (HVP) contribution $a_\mu\vert_{hvp}^{lo}$ to the muon anomalous magnetic moment (muon anomaly) from $e^+e^-\to$ Hadrons…
The light-by-light contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of muon (g-2)_{\mu} from the hadronic exchanges in the neutral pseudoscalar meson channel is calculated in the nonlocal chiral quark model. The full kinematic dependence of…
We reevaluate the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the muon magnetic anomaly and to the running of the electromagnetic coupling constant at the $Z$-boson mass. We include newest $e^+e^- \to$ hadrons cross-section data together…
Recently it was pointed out that for the evaluation of the numerically dominant pion-exchange contribution to the hadronic light-by-light scattering correction in the muon g-2, a fully off-shell pion-photon-photon form factor should be…
The E821 experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory is designed to measure the muon magnetic anomaly, a_mu, to an ultimate precision of 0.4 parts per million (ppm). Because theory can predict a_mu to 0.6 ppm, and ongoing efforts aim to…
After a short status report on chiral perturbation theory, I review recent progress in determining some of the low-energy couplings by matching the effective theory to QCD. Consequences for K_{l3} decays and for the extraction of the CKM…
I present the main results obtained in a recent work together with Eduardo de Rafael and Arkady Vainshtein on the hadronic light-by-light contribution to muon g-2. We came to the estimate a^{HLbL}_\mu = (10.5 +- 2.6) x 10^{-10}. Here, some…
We evaluate the contribution of scalar mesons to the hadronic light-by-light piece of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, using a warped five-dimensional model and holographic methods. We assess the contribution of the lightest, sub-GeV…
We present our preliminary results on the calculation of hadronic light-by-light forward scattering amplitudes using vector four-point correlation functions computed on the lattice. Using a dispersive approach, forward scattering amplitudes…
The contribution of hadronic scattering of light-by-light to the hyperfine structure of muonium is calculated using experimental data on the transition form factors of two photons into a hadron. The amplitudes of interaction between a muon…
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…
We report our (HPQCD) progress on the calculation of the Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of muon. In this article we discuss the calculations for the light (up/down) quark connected contribution…
The hadronic vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment a_{mu}(hadr) and to the value of the eleectromagnetic coupling constant at q^2 = M^2_z are determined more precisely in connection with a new more exact…