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We evaluate the hadronic contribution to the $g-2$ of the muon by deriving the low-energy limit of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and computing in this way the hadronic vacuum polarization. The low-energy limit is a non-local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-03 Marco Frasca , Anish Ghoshal , Stefan Groote

We present a lattice determination of the disconnected contributions to the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) to the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the so-called short and intermediate time-distance windows. We employ…

The current status of the experimental measurements and theoretical predictions of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_\mu$ is briefly reviewed. The emphasis is put on the evaluation of the hadronic contribution to $a_\mu$ as it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-01 Zhiqing Zhang

The hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment can be estimated by computing constituent quark loops. Such an estimate is very sensitive to the numerical values of the constituent quark masses.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Radja Boughezal , Kirill Melnikov

Recent calculations of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution are reviewed. The focus is put on the leading-order contribution to the muon magnetic anomaly involving $e^+e^-$ annihilation cross section data as input to a dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Zhiqing Zhang

We construct a physically motivated model for the isospin-one non-strange vacuum polarization function Pi(Q^2) based on a spectral function given by vector-channel OPAL data from hadronic tau decays for energies below the tau mass and a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-17 Maarten Golterman , Kim Maltman , Santiago Peris

The Standard Model prediction of the muon $g-2$ increasingly depends on lattice QCD computations of the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP), where the isospin-breaking (IB) effects remain a significant source of uncertainty. To complement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Volodymyr Biloshytskyi , Dominik Erb , Harvey B. Meyer , Julian Parrino , Vladimir Pascalutsa

In order to reduce the current hadronic uncertainties in the theory prediction for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, lattice calculations need to reach sub-percent accuracy on the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution. This…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-07-31 J. Bijnens , J. Harrison , N. Hermansson-Truedsson , T. Janowski , A. Jüttner , A. Portelli

I review the recent efforts to improve the precision of the prediction of the anomalous moment of the muon, in particular of the hadronic contribution of the vacuum polarization, which is the contribution with the largest uncertainty. Focus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-20 D. Bernard

Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_\mu$ is one of two hadronic effects limiting the precision of the Standard Model prediction for this precision observable, and hence the new-physics…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-21 Nils Asmussen , Antoine Gérardin , Andreas Nyffeler , Harvey B. Meyer

The current status of the muon anomalous magnetic moment problem is briefly presented. The corrections to muon anomaly coming from the effects of hadronic vacuum polarization, Z*\gamma\gamma* effective vertex and light-by-light scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Dorokhov

We present a lattice calculation of the Euclidean position-space windows contributing to the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarization term of the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_\mu$. Short-, intermediate- and long-distance windows are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-01 Davide Giusti , Silvano Simula

The past five years have brought significant new results on the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_\mu = (g_\mu - 2)/2$, and on the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution dominating the uncertainty $\Delta a_\mu$. Serious tension has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Dinko Pocanic

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon currently exhibits a discrepancy of about three standard deviations between the experimental value and recent Standard Model predictions. The theoretical uncertainty is dominated by the hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-28 Nils Asmussen , Jeremy Green , Harvey B. Meyer , Andreas Nyffeler

I present recent calculations of the hadronic contributions to muon anomalous magnetic moment in holographic QCD, based on gauge/gravity duality. The holographic estimates are compared well with the analysis based on recently revised BaBar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Deog Ki Hong

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon using $N_f=2+1+1$ flavors of staggered quarks with masses tuned to their physical values. Our final…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-19 Zoltan Fodor , Antoine Gerardin , Laurent Lellouch , Kalman K. Szabo , Balint C. Toth , Christian Zimmermann

Electromagnetic corrections to hadronic vacuum polarization contribute significantly to the uncertainty of the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomaly, which poses conceptual and numerical challenges for ab initio lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-25 A. Altherr , I. Campos , A. Cotellucci , R. Gruber , T. Harris , J. Komijani , F. Margari , M. K. Marinkovic , L. Parato , A. Patella , S. Rosso , N. Tantalo , P. Tavella

The dispersive approaches to the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_\mu$ are described. The main issues are discussed followed by perspectives in the next years.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-21 Zhiqing Zhang

We present an update of our lattice QCD determination of the hadronic contribution to the running of the electromagnetic coupling, $\Delta\alpha_{\mathrm{had}}^{(5)}(-Q^2)$, and of the electroweak mixing angle in the space-like momentum…

We discuss a method for calculating the heavy quark vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_\mu$, using perturbative QCD. This approach is independent of $e^+e^-$ cross-section data allowing a fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-29 P. D. Kennedy , J. Erler , H. Spiesberger