Measurement of the Negative Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm
Brookhaven National Laboratory · University of Minnesota · +9 more institutions
Abstract
We present the first results of the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) Muon g-2 Experiment for the positive muon magnetic anomaly a_{μ}≡(g_{μ}-2)/2. The anomaly is determined from the precision measurements of two angular frequencies. Intensity variation of high-energy positrons from muon decays directly encodes the difference frequency ω_{a} between the spin-precession and cyclotron frequencies for polarized muons in a magnetic storage ring. The storage ring magnetic field is measured using nuclear magnetic resonance probes calibrated in terms of the equivalent proton spin precession frequency ω[over ˜]_{p}^{'} in a spherical water sample at 34.7 °C. The ratio ω_{a}/ω[over ˜]_{p}^{'}, together…
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62Topics & keywords
- Muon
- Physics
- Anomalous magnetic dipole moment
- Anomaly (physics)
- Nuclear physics
- Magnetic moment
- Synchrotron
- Particle physics