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Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't
Alex Keshavarzi digs into the showdown between two competing Standard Model predictions of the muon, which may reveal undiscovered particles hiding in the vacuum
(Courtesy: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab, US Department of Energy)Having led the experiment as manager and run co-ordinator, Muon g-2 is an awe-inspiring feature of science and engineering, involving more than 200 scientists from 35 institutions in seven countries. “Striking agreement, to better than 1%, is seen between results from multiple groups,” says Christine Davis of the University of Glasgow in the UK, a member of the High-precision lattice QCD(HPQCD) collaboration within the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative. “Our second result based on the data from 2019 and 2020 has been the first step in increasing the precision of the magnetic anomaly measurement,” says Peter Winter of Argonne National Laboratory in the US and co-spokesperson for the Muon g-2 experiment.
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