The hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Harvey Meyer (Mainz Univ.)

Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/11/2020
13:30 - 14:30

Location
video conference (zoom)


Abstract:

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon serves as a low-energy precision test of the Standard Model of particle physics.  The White Paper (arXiv:2006.04822) recently published in Physics Reports concludes that a tension of 3.7 standard deviations persists between the direct measurement and the Standard Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.  A new direct measurement is expected very soon by the E989 experiment at Fermilab. On the theory side, the uncertainty of the SM prediction is quasi-saturated by the hadronic contributions. I will focus on the effort by the lattice QCD community to compute these hadronic contributions and compare these calculations to phenomenological determinations.