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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 BNL and FNAL measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon disagree with the Standard Model (SM) prediction by more than $4\sigma$. The hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contributions are the dominant source of uncertainty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-19 Andrew Fowlie , Qiao Li

We present results of calculations of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. Specifically, we focus on controlling the infrared regime of the vacuum polarisation function. Our results are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 M. Della Morte , A. Francis , A. Gérardin , V. Gülpers , G. Herdoiza , G. von Hippel , H. Horch , B. Jäger , H. B. Meyer , A. Nyffeler , H. Wittig

We present new lattice results of the ETM Collaboration, obtained from extensive simulations of lattice QCD with dynamical up, down, strange and charm quarks at physical mass values, different volumes and lattice spacings, concerning the SM…

We report the first lattice QCD calculation of the hadronic vacuum polarization disconnected contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment at physical pion mass. The calculation uses a refined noise-reduction technique which enabled…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-15 T. Blum , P. A. Boyle , T. Izubuchi , L. Jin , A. Jüttner , C. Lehner , K. Maltman , M. Marinkovic , A. Portelli , M. Spraggs

I review the status of lattice QCD calculations of the hadronic contributions to the muon's anomalous magnetic moment, focussing on the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution which dominates the uncertainty of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Hartmut Wittig

The hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu}^{\rm had, VP}$ have been re-evaluated from the combination of $e^+e^-\rightarrow {\rm hadrons}$ cross section data. Focus has been placed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-21 Alexander Keshavarzi , Daisuke Nomura , Thomas Teubner

We present a lattice calculation of the leading-order electromagnetic and strong isospin-breaking corrections to the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We employ the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-12 D. Giusti , V. Lubicz , G. Martinelli , F. Sanfilippo , S. Simula

Using experimental spectral data for hadronic tau decays from the OPAL experiment, supplemented by a phenomenologically successful parameterization for the high-s region not covered by the data, we construct a physically constrained model…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-12-16 Maarten Golterman , Kim Maltman , Santiago Peris

We introduce a new method for calculating the ${\rm O}(\alpha^3)$ hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from ${ab-initio}$ lattice QCD. We first derive expressions suitable for computing the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-14 Bipasha Chakraborty , Christine T. H. Davies , Jonna Koponen , G. Peter Lepage , Ruth S. Van de Water

A reliable evaluation of the integral giving the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment should be possible using a simple trapezoid-rule integration of lattice data for the subtracted electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-29 Maarten Golterman , Kim Maltman , Santiago Peris

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon ($\,a_{\mu}\,$) provides a stringent test of the quantum nature of the Standard Model (SM) and its extensions. To probe beyond the SM physics, one needs to be able to subtract the SM contributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-25 Kaustubh Agashe , Abhishek Banerjee , Minuyan Jiang , Shmuel Nussinov , Kushan Panchal , Srijit Paul , Gilad Perez , Yotam Soreq

The QCD coupling appears in the perturbative expansion of the current-current two-point (vacuum polarization) function. Any lattice calculation of vacuum polarization is plagued by several competing non-perturbative effects at small momenta…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-19 Renwick J. Hudspith , Randy Lewis , Kim Maltman , Eigo Shintani

We present a preliminary lattice calculation of the leading-order electromagnetic and strong isospin-breaking corrections to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarization (HVP) contribution of the light quarks to the anomalous magnetic moment of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-16 Davide Giusti , Vittorio Lubicz , Guido Martinelli , Francesco Sanfilippo , Silvano Simula , Cecilia Tarantino

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Stephan Narison

We present results for the hadronic running of the electromagnetic coupling and the weak mixing angle from simulations of lattice QCD with $N_f=2+1$ flavours of $O(a)$-improved Wilson fermions. Using two different discretisations of the…

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

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 João Barata , Kazuki Ikeda , Swagato Mukherjee , Jonathan Raghoonanan

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…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-19 Bipasha Chakraborty , Christine Davies , Pedro Gonçalves de Oliveira , Jonna Koponen , G. Peter Lepage

In recent years, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon has triggered a lot of activity in the lattice QCD community because a persistent tension of about $3.5~\sigma$ is observed between the phenomenological estimate and the Brookhaven…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-04-21 Antoine Gérardin