articlePhysics ReportsAug 13, 2020HYBRID OA

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model

TAT. AoyamaNAN. AsmussenMBM. BenayounJBJ. BijnensTBT. Blum

Obayashi (Japan) · High Energy Accelerator Research Organization · +36 more institutions

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Abstract

We review the present status of the Standard Model calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. This is performed in a perturbative expansion in the fine-structure constant α and is broken down into pure QED, electroweak, and hadronic contributions. The pure QED contribution is by far the largest and has been evaluated up to and including O(α5) with negligible numerical uncertainty. The electroweak contribution is suppressed by (mμ∕MW)2 and only shows up at the level of the seventh significant digit. It has been evaluated up to two loops and is known to better than one percent. Hadronic contributions are the most difficult to calculate and are responsible for almost all of the theoretical…

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  • TA
    T. Aoyama

    Obayashi (Japan), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, RIKEN Nishina Center, Nagoya University

  • NA
    N. Asmussen

    University of Southampton

  • MB
    M. Benayoun

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies

  • JB
    J. Bijnens

    Lund University

  • TB
    T. Blum

    University of Connecticut, Brookhaven National Laboratory, RIKEN BNL Research Center

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Keywords
  • Anomalous magnetic dipole moment
  • Hadron
  • Electroweak interaction
  • Muon
  • Dispersion relation
  • Standard Model (mathematical formulation)
  • Scattering
  • Moment (physics)
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