The hadronic vacuum polarization function with O(a)-improved Wilson fermions - an update

TL;DR

This paper updates lattice QCD calculations of the vacuum polarization function using improved Wilson fermions, providing refined estimates of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment contribution with enhanced statistical and systematic analysis.

Contribution

It introduces an improved lattice QCD approach with increased statistics and a comprehensive systematic uncertainty estimation for the vacuum polarization function.

Findings

Preliminary estimate of $a_\mu^{\mathrm{HLO}}$ at the physical point.

Use of extended frequentist method for uncertainty quantification.

Results include contributions from $u,d,s,$ and $c$ quarks.

Abstract

We present an update of our lattice QCD study of the vacuum polarization function using O$(a)$-improved $N_ {\rm f} =2$ Wilson fermions with increased statistics and a large set of momenta. The resulting points are highly correlated and thus require a correlated fitting procedure. We employ an extended frequentist method to estimate the systematic uncertainties due to the momentum dependence and to the continuum and chiral extrapolations. We present preliminary results of the leading order hadronic contribution of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $\left(a_\mu^{\mathrm{HLO}}\right)$ at the physical point for $u,d,s$ and $c$ valence quarks.