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This White Paper briefly reviews the present status of the muon (g-2) Standard-Model prediction. This value results in a 3 - 4 standard-deviation difference with the experimental result from Brookhaven E821. The present experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-12 Thomas Blum , Achim Denig , Ivan Logashenko , Eduardo de Rafael , B. Lee Roberts , Thomas Teubner , Graziano Venanzoni

We present the final report from a series of precision measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, a_mu = (g-2)/2. The details of the experimental method, apparatus, data taking, and analysis are summarized. Data obtained at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Muon , Collaboration , : , G. W. Bennett

This White Paper briefly reviews the present status of the muon (g-2) experiment and the physics motivation for a new effort. The present comparison between experiment and theory indicates a tantalizing $3.4 \sigma$ deviation. An…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-06-01 David W. Hertzog , James P. Miller , Eduardo de Rafael , B. Lee Roberts , Dominik Stockinger

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 muon (g-2) experiment at BNL has completed four data runs for the positive muon, beginning in 1997 and has just finished its first run for the negative muon. Recently the analysis of a 1.3 ppm result based on the 1999 run was completed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerco Onderwater

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 David W. Hertzog

There is a long standing discrepancy between the Standard Model prediction for the muon g-2 and the value measured by the Brookhaven E821 Experiment. At present the discrepancy stands at about three standard deviations, with a comparable…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Graziano Venanzoni

The Muon (g-2) Experiment (E821) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has measured the anomalous magnetic moment of the positive muon to an unprecedented precision of 1.3 parts per million. The result, a_{\mu^+} = (g-2)/2 = 11 659…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 2 Collaboration , O. Rind

A new measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu} \equiv (g-2)/2$, will be performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with data taking beginning in 2017. The most recent measurement, performed at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-03 Wesley Gohn

The $\mu\nu$SSM is a highly predictive alternative model to the MSSM. In particular, the electroweak sector of the model can explain the longstanding discrepancy between the experimental result for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Sven Heinemeyer , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Iñaki Lara , Daniel E. López-Fogliani , Carlos Muñoz , Natsumi Nagata

The status of the muon (g-2) experiment at the Brookhaven AGS is reviewed. An accuracy of 1.3 ppm on the mu^+ anomalous magnetic moment has been achieved and published. This result differs with the standard model prediction by about 2.5…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Lee Roberts , H. N. Brown

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 evaluation of the hadronic contribution to the muon magnetic anomaly $a_\mu$ is revisited, taking advantage of new experimental data on $e^+e^-$ annihilation into hadrons: SND and CMD-2 for the $\pi^+\pi^-$ channel, and \babar for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michel Davier

The muon magnetic anomaly, $a_{\mu}=(g_{\mu}-2)/2$, plays a special role in the history of the Standard Model (SM). Precise calculations and measurements of this fundamental quantity provide a stringent test of the SM and a window to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-17 Alex Keshavarzi , Kim Siang Khaw , Tamaki Yoshioka

The magnetic moment anomaly a_mu = (g_mu - 2) / 2 of the positive muon has been measured at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron with an uncertainty of 0.7 ppm. The new result, based on data taken in 2000, agrees well with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Deile

The muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement, when compared with theory, can be used to test many extensions to the standard model. The most recent measurement made by the Brookhaven E821 Collaboration reduces the uncertainty on the world…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 David W. Hertzog

A new measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu} \equiv (g-2)/2$, will be performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with data taking beginning in 2017. The most recent measurement, performed at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-16 W. Gohn

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Fred Jegerlehner , Andreas Nyffeler

The upcoming Fermilab E989 experiment will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_{\mu}$ . This measurement is motivated by the previous measurement performed in 2001 by the BNL E821 experiment that reported a 3-4 standard deviation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Antoine Chapelain

The muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_\mu = (g-2)/2$, is a low-energy observable which can be both measured and computed with very high precision, making it an excellent test of the Standard Model (SM) and a sensitive probe of new physics.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-20 Paolo Girotti
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