IIHE invited seminar: Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon — Harbinger of new physics?

by Dr Gerco Onderwater (Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen)

Friday 1 Apr 2016, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Brussels

Jean Sacton Seminar room (1G003) (IIHE, VUB)

Note: this seminar was originally scheduled on 27 November 2015.

abstract: The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is one of the most precisely measured quantities in experimental particle physics. Its latest measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory deviates from the Standard Model expectation by approximately 3.5 standard deviations. The goal of the new experiment, E989, now under construction at Fermilab, is a fourfold improvement in precision. We will consider both theoretical and experimental aspects of this measurement, and discuss details of the future measurement and its current status.