23–27 Sept 2026
Novotel Cairns Oasis Resort
Australia/Brisbane timezone

Resolving the muon magnetic moment mystery

23 Sept 2026, 11:00
30m
Novotel Cairns Oasis Resort

Novotel Cairns Oasis Resort

Lattice QCD

Speaker

Finn Stokes (The University of Adelaide)

Description

For twenty years, a persistent discrepancy between experimental measurements and theoretical calculations of the muon anomalous magnetic moment has provided tantalising hints of new physics. In recent years, improvements to the experimental precision have appeared to make the tension stronger and stronger. However, at the same time, our new theoretical computation using lattice QCD overturned the theory consensus, completely eliminating the tension. I will present the latest results from the BMW and DMZ collaborations, with a determination of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to a precision of 0.45%

Author

Finn Stokes (The University of Adelaide)

Co-authors

Alessandro Cotellucci (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Dr Andrey Kotov Balint Toth (University of Wuppertal) Bogdan Malaescu (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3 (FR)) Davide Giusti Dr Fabian Frech Gen Wang Kalman Szabo Laurent Lellouch (CNRS and Aix-Marseille U.) Michel Davier Sophie Mutzel (Mines Paris, ENS Paris, Inria Paris) Zhiqing Philippe Zhang (IJCLab, Orsay (FR)) Zoltan Fodor

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