articlePhysical Review LettersApr 23, 2004GREEN OA

Measurement of the Negative Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm

Brookhaven National Laboratory · University of Minnesota · +9 more institutions

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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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Keywords
  • Muon
  • Physics
  • Anomalous magnetic dipole moment
  • Anomaly (physics)
  • Nuclear physics
  • Magnetic moment
  • Synchrotron
  • Particle physics
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