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Colloquium: Muon's g-2 from lattice QCD and experiments: 4.2 sigma indeed?
Add to Calendar 2023-04-06T19:45:00 2023-04-06T20:45:00 UTC Colloquium: Muon's g-2 from lattice QCD and experiments: 4.2 sigma indeed? 101 Osmond and Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93946951319?pwd=dFVHR21XbDExR0JQanNBUldENEFvQT09
Start DateThu, Apr 06, 2023
3:45 PM
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End DateThu, Apr 06, 2023
4:45 PM
Presented By
Zolton Fodor, Penn State University
Event Series: Physics Colloquium

Twenty years ago, in an experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory, physicists detected what seemed to be a discrepancy between measurements of the muon's magnetic moment and theoretical calculations of what that measurement should be, raising the tantalizing possibility of physical particles or forces as yet undiscovered. The Fermilab team has announced that their precise measurement supports this possibility. The reported significance for new physics is 4.2 sigma just slightly below the discovery level of 5 sigma. However, an extensive new calculation of the muon's magnetic moment using lattice QCD by the BMW-collaboration reduces the gap between theory and experimental measurements. An important part of this calculation has been reproduced by four other lattice collaborations. In this talk both the theoretical and experimental aspects are summarized with two possible narratives: a) almost discovery or b) Standard Model re-enforced.