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Using the momentum dependence of the dressed quark mass and the well-known formulae for the mass dependent quark-loop contribution to the light-by-light scattering insertions, we compute the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Pere Masjuan , Marc Vanderhaeghen

The well-known discrepancy in the muon $g-2$ between experiment and theory demands further theory investigations in view of the upcoming new experiments. One of the leading uncertainties lies in the hadronic light-by-light scattering…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Nils Asmussen , Antoine Gérardin , Harvey B. Meyer , Andreas Nyffeler

The muon anomalous magnetic moment continues to attract interest due to the potential tension between experimental measurement [1,2] and the Standard Model prediction [3]. The hadronic light-by-light contribution to the magnetic moment is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Johan Bijnens , Nils Hermansson-Truedsson , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

We review recent developments concerning the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We first discuss why fully off-shell hadronic form factors should be used for the evaluation of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Andreas Nyffeler

We report our recent lattice calculation of hadronic light-by-light contribution to muon $g-2$ using our recently developed moment method. The connected diagrams and the leading disconnected diagrams are included. The calculation is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-29 Luchang Jin , Thomas Blum , Norman Christ , Masashi Hayakawa , Taku Izubuchi , Chulwoo Jung , Christoph Lehner

The current $3.7\sigma$ discrepancy between the Standard Model prediction and the experimental value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment could be a hint for the existence of new physics. The hadronic light-by-light contribution is one of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Johan Bijnens , Nils Hermansson-Truedsson , Laetitia Laub , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Mistake in FORTRAN program corrected. The numerical results and conclusions are changed significantly: We present a calculation of the hadronic light-by-light contributions to the muon $g-2$ in the $1/N_c$ expansion. We have used an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Johan Bijnens , Elisabetta Pallante , Joaquim Prades

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-21 V. I. Korobov , A. V. Eskin , A. P. Martynenko , F. A. Martynenko

We develop a method to compute the pion transition form factor directly at arbitrary space-like photon momenta and use it to determine the $\pi^0$-pole contribution to the hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-31 Tian Lin , Mattia Bruno , Xu Feng , Lu-Chang Jin , Christoph Lehner , Chuan Liu , Qi-Yuan Luo

This talk discusses our old work on the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment and some more recent contributions. I discuss the various contributions starting with pseudo-scalar meson exchange, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Johan Bijnens

We give a short overview of the theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment with emphasis on the hadronic light-by-light and the pion loop contribution. We explain the difference between the hidden local symmetry and full VMD pion loop and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Johan Bijnens , Mehran Zahiri Abyaneh

We briefly review several activities at Mainz related to hadronic light-by-light scattering (HLbL) using lattice QCD. First we present a position-space approach to the HLbL contribution in the muon g-2, where we focus on exploratory studies…

We discuss the use of dispersion relations for the evaluation of the pseudoscalar contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. We point out that, in the absence of experimental data, reconstruction of light-by-light scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-15 Kirill Melnikov , Arkady Vainshtein

Based on dispersion theory, we present a formalism for a model-independent evaluation of the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. In particular, we comment on the definition of the pion pole in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Gilberto Colangelo , Martin Hoferichter , Massimiliano Procura , Peter Stoffer

We review the recent progress achieved, using Resonance Chiral Theory, in the hadronic contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. These include the hadronic vacuum polarization, either using $e^+e^-$ or $\tau$ decays into hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Emilio J. Estrada , Alejandro Miranda , Pablo Roig

Hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) scattering defines one of the critical contributions in the Standard-Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. In this Letter, we present a complete evaluation using a dispersive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-13 Martin Hoferichter , Peter Stoffer , Maximilian Zillinger

We review the recent progress made with regard to the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) contribution to the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and how well this compares with predictions from holographic QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 Anton Rebhan , Luigi Cappiello , Josef Leutgeb , Jonas Mager

We summarize recent developments in the Standard-Model evaluation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_\mu$, both in the hadronic-light-by-light and hadronic-vacuum-polarization contributions. The current situation for the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Gilberto Colangelo , Martin Hoferichter , Peter Stoffer

The hadronic light-by-light contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon was recently analyzed in the framework of dispersion theory, providing a systematic formalism where all input quantities are expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Gilberto Colangelo , Martin Hoferichter , Bastian Kubis , Massimiliano Procura , Peter Stoffer

Hadronic light-by-light scattering is one of the virtual processes that causes the gyromagnetic factor $g$ of the muon to deviate from the value of two predicted by Dirac's theory. This process makes one of the largest contributions to the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-05-02 Nils Asmussen , En-Hung Chao , Antoine Gérardin , Jeremy R. Green , Renwick J. Hudspith , Harvey B. Meyer , Andreas Nyffeler