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The anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) of the muon was measured with a precision of 0.54 ppm in Experiment 821 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A difference of 3.2 standard deviations between this experimental value and the prediction of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Frederick Gray

The muon anomaly $a_\mu=(g_\mu-2)/2$ showing a persisting 3 to 4 $\sigma$ deviation between the SM prediction and the experiment is one of the most promising signals for physics beyond the SM. As is well known, the hadronic uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Fred Jegerlehner

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon displays a $4.2\sigma$ tension with the Standard-Model prediction, if $e^+e^-\to \text{hadrons}$ data are used for hadronic vacuum polarization. In these proceedings we review possible explanations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Andreas Crivellin , Martin Hoferichter

I present a fairly detailed discussion of various contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon a_mu. I try to give an unbiased evaluation of the validity of the SM prediction for this quantity and to point out some delicate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Melnikov

In this letter, we address the question of whether the almost four standard deviations difference between theory and experiment for the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_\mu$ can be explained as a higher-order Standard Model perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-16 Francisco Campanario , Henryk Czyż , Janusz Gluza , Tomasz Jeliński , Germán Rodrigo , Szymon Tracz , Dmitry Zhuridov

We review the status of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon as a precision probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) after the release of the final results from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) Muon $g-2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 David W. Hertzog , Martin Hoferichter

This article reviews and updates the Standard Model prediction of the muon g-2. QED, electroweak and hadronic contributions are presented, and open questions discussed. The theoretical prediction deviates from the present experimental value…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 M. Passera

Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (muon g-2) is one of the most precisely measured quantities in particle physics. At the same time, it can be evaluated in the Standard Model with an unprecedented accuracy. The Muon g-2 experiment at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-02-03 Marina Krstic Marinkovic , Nuno Cardoso

Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu}=(g_{\mu}-2)/2$, is one of the most precisely measured quantities in particle physics and it provides a stringent test of the Standard Model. The planned improvements of the experimental…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-04-24 Marina Krstic Marinkovic

The magnetic moment is a fundamental property of particles. The measurement of these magnetic moments and the comparison with the values predicted by the standard model of particle physics is a way to test our understanding of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-12-23 M. Eads

Soon, new experiments at FNAL and J-PARC will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moments with better accuracy than before. From theoretical side, the uncertainty of the standard model prediction is dominated by the hadronic contributions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 A. E. Dorokhov , A. E. Radzhabov , A. S. Zhevlakov

The anomalous magnetic moments of both positive and negative muons are measured to the precision of 0.7 parts per million. Two values are in good agreement. The standard model calculations of muon g-2 are under further studies, especially…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Deng , for Muon g-2 Collaboration

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 anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is an important observable that tests radiative corrections of all three observed local gauge forces: electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions. High precision measurements reveal some…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Davor Palle

This article reviews the muon g-2 experiment, a cornerstone in precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics. The experiment measures the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon with unprecedented accuracy, seeking potential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-06 Marin Karuza

The statistical significance that characterizes a discrepancy between a measurement and theoretical prediction is usually calculated assuming that the statistical and systematic uncertainties are known. Many types of systematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Glen Cowan

We review the present status of the Standard Model calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. This is performed in a perturbative expansion in the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ and is broken down into pure QED,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-16 T. Aoyama , N. Asmussen , M. Benayoun , J. Bijnens , T. Blum , M. Bruno , I. Caprini , C. M. Carloni Calame , M. Cè , G. Colangelo , F. Curciarello , H. Czyż , I. Danilkin , M. Davier , C. T. H. Davies , M. Della Morte , S. I. Eidelman , A. X. El-Khadra , A. Gérardin , D. Giusti , M. Golterman , Steven Gottlieb , V. Gülpers , F. Hagelstein , M. Hayakawa , G. Herdoíza , D. W. Hertzog , A. Hoecker , M. Hoferichter , B. -L. Hoid , R. J. Hudspith , F. Ignatov , T. Izubuchi , F. Jegerlehner , L. Jin , A. Keshavarzi , T. Kinoshita , B. Kubis , A. Kupich , A. Kupść , L. Laub , C. Lehner , L. Lellouch , I. Logashenko , B. Malaescu , K. Maltman , M. K. Marinković , P. Masjuan , A. S. Meyer , H. B. Meyer , T. Mibe , K. Miura , S. E. Müller , M. Nio , D. Nomura , A. Nyffeler , V. Pascalutsa , M. Passera , E. Perez del Rio , S. Peris , A. Portelli , M. Procura , C. F. Redmer , B. L. Roberts , P. Sánchez-Puertas , S. Serednyakov , B. Shwartz , S. Simula , D. Stöckinger , H. Stöckinger-Kim , P. Stoffer , T. Teubner , R. Van de Water , M. Vanderhaeghen , G. Venanzoni , G. von Hippel , H. Wittig , Z. Zhang , M. N. Achasov , A. Bashir , N. Cardoso , B. Chakraborty , E. -H. Chao , J. Charles , A. Crivellin , O. Deineka , A. Denig , C. DeTar , C. A. Dominguez , A. E. Dorokhov , V. P. Druzhinin , G. Eichmann , M. Fael , C. S. Fischer , E. Gámiz , Z. Gelzer , J. R. Green , S. Guellati-Khelifa , D. Hatton , N. Hermansson-Truedsson , S. Holz , B. Hörz , M. Knecht , J. Koponen , A. S. Kronfeld , J. Laiho , S. Leupold , P. B. Mackenzie , W. J. Marciano , C. McNeile , D. Mohler , J. Monnard , E. T. Neil , A. V. Nesterenko , K. Ottnad , V. Pauk , A. E. Radzhabov , E. de Rafael , K. Raya , A. Risch , A. Rodríguez-Sánchez , P. Roig , T. San José , E. P. Solodov , R. Sugar , K. Yu. Todyshev , A. Vainshtein , A. Vaquero Avilés-Casco , E. Weil , J. Wilhelm , R. Williams , A. S. Zhevlakov

No gauge invariant regularization is available for the perturbative calculation of the standard model. One has to add finite counter terms to restore gauge symmetry for the renormalized amplitudes. The muon anomalous magnetic moment can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-28 Er-Cheng Tsai

We discuss if the resonance recently observed by CMS can be responsible for the deviation of the experimentally measured muon anomalous magnetic moment from the theoretical prediction.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 S. I. Godunov , V. A. Novikov , M. I. Vysotsky , E. V. Zhemchugov

The Muon g-2 collaboration has measured the anomalous magnetic g value, a = (g-2)/2, of the positive muon with an unprecedented uncertainty of 0.7 parts per million. The result, based on data collected in the year 2000 at Brookhaven…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 E. P. Sichtermann