The muon $g-2$: a brief overview of hadronic cross section data
Alexander Keshavarzi

TL;DR
This paper reviews the use of experimental e+e- hadronic cross section data to evaluate the hadronic vacuum polarization contributions to the muon g-2, highlighting data tensions and their impact on the Standard Model prediction.
Contribution
It provides an updated dispersive evaluation of hadronic contributions to muon g-2 using recent experimental data, emphasizing the effects of data tensions on the results.
Findings
Calculated hadronic vacuum polarization contributions with improved precision.
Identified data tensions between different experiments affecting the analysis.
Updated Standard Model prediction for muon g-2 shows a 3.7 sigma deviation from experiment.
Abstract
The hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, are evaluated dispersively via a combination of experimentally measured cross section data. Many experiments have dedicated programmes to precisely measure these final states, meaning that a vast amount of data is now available and that, in some cases, overall precision has reached the sub-percent level. However, data tensions are evident between measurements of the same hadronic channels from different experiments, which reduces the overall quality of the data combinations used to determine . The inclusion of these data in the KNT18 analysis results in and . The corresponding new…
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The muon : a brief overview of hadronic cross section data
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi 38677, U.S.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.
E-mail The author would like to thank the organisers of The 9th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics for a very productive and enjoyable workshop. Special thanks and acknowledgement are extended to Daisuke Nomura and Thomas Teubner for their collaboration on the KNT18 analysis. This manuscript has been authored by an employee of The University of Mississippi supported in-part by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, award DE-SC0012391 and using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. The work of the author at the University of Liverpool was supported by STFC under the consolidated grant ST/N504130/1.
Abstract:
The hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, are evaluated dispersively via a combination of experimentally measured cross section data. Many experiments have dedicated programmes to precisely measure these final states, meaning that a vast amount of data is now available and that, in some cases, overall precision has reached the sub-percent level. However, data tensions are evident between measurements of the same hadronic channels from different experiments, which reduces the overall quality of the data combinations used to determine . The inclusion of these data in the KNT18 analysis results in and . The corresponding new estimate for the Standard Model prediction is found to be , which is below the current experimental measurement.
1 Introduction
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, , stands as an enduring test of the Standard Model (SM), where the (or higher) discrepancy between the experimental measurement [1, 2] and the SM prediction could be an indication of the existence of new physics beyond the SM. Efforts to improve the experimental estimate at Fermilab (FNAL) [3] and at J-PARC [4, 5] aim to reduce the experimental uncertainty by a factor of four compared to the BNL measurement. It is therefore imperative that the SM prediction is also improved to determine whether the discrepancy is well established.
The uncertainty of is entirely dominated by the hadronic contributions, where the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions can be separated into the leading-order (LO) and higher-order contributions. These are calculated utilising dispersion integrals and the experimentally measured cross section , where the superscript 0 denotes the bare cross section (undressed of all vacuum polarisation (VP) effects) and the subscript indicates the inclusion of effects from final state photon radiation (FSR). At LO, the dispersion relation reads
[TABLE]
where denotes the hadronic -ratio and is a well known kernel function.
Below GeV, the estimates of and the corresponding uncertainties are determined from the experimentally measured cross sections of individual hadronic final states, where the hadronic -ratio in this region is predominantly constructed from the sum of the determined cross sections. Above GeV, data for the measured total hadronic -ratio (all hadronic final states) are combined. For nearly all these channels, the available data from numerous different experiments must be analysed, combined and then integrated over according to equation (1) to give a corresponding estimate of the contribution to . Therefore, the dependence of this calculation on the quality and precision of these measured cross sections is substantial and many experiments have dedicated programmes focused on the accurate measurement of these processes. This document focuses on the effect of these measurements on the recent KNT18 analysis of [6]. Details of other similar analyses can be found in [7, 9, 8, 10, 11].
2 Experimental measurements of
Experimental measurements of the cross sections of exclusive hadronic final states are obtained via two approaches. The first is the standard direct energy scan approach, where data is collected at fixed centre of mass (C.M.) energy intervals. The second is achieved through radiative return, where the differential cross section is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the hadronic final state, . The cross section is then determined, for example, according to [12] using the relation
[TABLE]
where is the radiator function describing the emission of photons in the initial state [13, 14, 15, 16].
2.1 Direct energy scan experiments
2.1.1 CMD-3
The CMD-3 detector [17] is the first of two direct energy scan experiments at the collider VEPP-2000 [18]. The VEPP-2000 machine has a C.M. energy range of GeV, with a design luminosity of at GeV. The CMD-3 experimental programme has already published cross section measurements for many final states (see e.g. [19, 20, 21]). Of these, major improvements have been seen in the measurements of the cross sections, with both the [22] and [23] analyses yielding very precise results of the narrow resonance that dominates in both these channels. In the channel in particular, these new data replace those previously measured by CMD-2 [24], which are currently awaiting reanalysis as they suffer from an overestimation of the trigger efficiency for slow kaons [22, 25]. The cross section values of these new CMD-3 data are higher than all other existing data in this channel [22], leading to significant new data tensions in the overall combination of all available data (see Section LABEL:sec:DataTensions). Notably, the CMD-3 experiment has also recently released data for the final state, which had not previously been measured [26]. Of particular importance to future determinations of is the announced new measurement of the cross section by CMD-3, which is currently undergoing an extensive analysis [21].111The channel accounts for over 70% of the total value of , due to the large resonance structure in the low energy region below 1 GeV that is highly weighted by in equation (1). Consequently, it also dominates the overall uncertainty of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions, resulting in CMD-3 (and other experiments) re-measuring this final state in an attempt to more precisely determine . With high-precision in mind, this measurement aims to be the most precise in terms of statistical precision of all the current data sets being combined in the channel and to also achieve a systematic uncertainty budget of , compared to the achieved by CMD-2 [27, 28, 29].
2.1.2 SND
The SND experiment [30] is the second general purpose detector at VEPP-2000 [18]. It also collected data at the VEPP-2M collider [31] that predated this, where data for exclusive hadronic final states were collected between 1996-2000 in the energy range GeV. This was then extended to GeV as part of the upgrade to the VEPP-2000 machine. In recent years, SND have released new data for several hadronic modes [32, 33], notably the [34, 35] cross section and the cross section above the resonance [36]. The SND experiment is also currently analysing a new measurement of the cross section, having collected an integrated luminosity of of data for this important final state [37]. The systematic uncertainties of this measurement are predicted to be in the range of .
2.1.3 KEDR
The KEDR detector [38] at the VEPP-4M collider [39] is an experimental facility dedicated to the measurement of the full multi-hadron cross section, or total hadronic -ratio. It has already published measurements of at 22 C.M. energies between GeV, with total uncertainties ranging from (2.4% systematic uncertainties) at lower energies to 2.6% ( systematic uncertainties) above the resonance [40]. The agreement between these data and pQCD in this energy range is much improved compared to the previous measurements of the -ratio by BES/BES-II in this region[41, 42, 43, 44, 45]. The KEDR experiment also plans to complete two scans of from GeV by the end of 2019 [40].
2.2 Radiative return experiments
2.2.1 BABAR
The BABAR detector [46] resides at the PEP-II storage ring at SLAC [47], which operates predominantly at the C.M. energy GeV. The experiment detects large-angle photons with energies GeV, which defines the C.M. energy of the leptonic or hadronic final state determined via radiative return. This allows for precise cross sections measurements from production threshold up to 3-5 GeV [48].
The experimental programme at BABAR dedicated to low-energy hadronic cross sections has measured an almost complete set of exclusive hadronic channels below 2 GeV, missing only the , and modes. Arguably its most impressive measurement is that of the cross section from threshold to GeV, which is statistically the most precise of all measured cross sections and has a systematic uncertainty of only 0.5% in the region of the all-important resonance [49, 50]. BABAR have also announced a forthcoming release of a new measurement of the cross section which should have twice the number of the statistics of the data published in [50] and have even better control of the systematic uncertainties [48].
With their broad experimental programme, BABAR measurements have also greatly improved the determination of many other channels. A new measurement of the channel [51] has provided the only new data in this channel since 2003. The channel now includes a precise and finely-binned measurement, supplemented with full statistical and systematic covariance matrices [52]. The neutral final state has also been measured, completing all modes that contribute to the final state. In addition, BABAR have also completed all modes that contribute to the channel [54]. Finally, a very recent measurement of the cross section is the first published data of this final state to be included in the overall compilation [55].
2.2.2 KLOE/KLOE-2
DANE [62] is a high luminosity collider that operates predominantly at the centre of mass energy equal to the meson mass, [2]. The KLOE detector has been used to obtain three precise measurements of the cross section \allowbreak\sigma\big{(}e^{+}e^{-}\allowbreak\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\gamma(\gamma)\big{)} in 2008 [64, 67], 2010 [65, 68] and 2012 [66, 69].222The KLOE collaboration also made a measurement of \sigma\big{(}e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\gamma(\gamma)\big{)} in 2005 [70]. However, this is now considered to be superseded by the 2008 measurement, as discussed in [64]. Each of these measurements results in two-pion contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon of [71]
[TABLE]
The simultaneous use of the KLOE measurements required a detailed analysis to attain the correct combination of the three, which have a non-trivial influence on and provide an important comparison with other experimental measurements of . The KLOE measurements of are, in part, highly correlated, necessitating the construction of full statistical and systematic covariance matrices to be used in any combination of these data. The construction of these matrices and the combination of the three measurements was achieved in [71], which resulted in a single vector for the two-pion cross section , along with a corresponding covariance matrix. This combination of the KLOE cross section data resulted in an estimate of the two-pion contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon of
[TABLE]
2.2.3 BESIII
The BESIII detector [56] is a general purpose detector at the BEPCII collider [57], which operates at C.M. energies between GeV and has a design luminosity of at the resonance [58]. The BESIII experiment have published a measurement of the cross section focused solely on the resonance contribution between GeV [59]. With a total uncertainty of and the evident disagreement between the BABAR and KLOE cross sections, this measurement provides an interesting comparison to the existing data. BESIII have also announced future releases of the , , and cross sections [60], along with measurements of the total hadronic -ratio [61].
3 Results for from KNT18
The KNT18 analysis [6] is a complete re-evaluation of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions, . The results from this work for contributions to and cross sections from the major channels are given in Table 1 and Figure 1, respectively. In the channel, the radiative return measurements from BABAR, KLOE and BESIII in the region have greatly improved the estimate of this final state. The cross section in the region is displayed in plot (a) of Figure 1. For all displayed channels, the data combinations include new measurements which, coupled with updates in the KNT data combination routine [6], have improved the estimates of from these final states. The uncertainty contribution from is still relatively large in comparison with its contribution to and requires better new data. Plot (g) of Figure 1 demonstrates good agreement between the previously used estimate from isospin relations and the data-based approach in the final state. Examining plot (h) of Figure 1, it is evident that the isospin relations provided a poor estimate of the final state. The inclusive hadronic -ratio compilation is shown in plot (i) of Figure 1, which demonstrates that the inclusive data combination is much improved. With the new KEDR data, the differences between the inclusive data and pQCD are not as large as previously and, hence, the contributions in the entire inclusive data region are now estimated using the inclusive data alone.
3.1 Data tensions in the KNT18 analysis
In the channel, the BABAR data are noticeably higher than the average, causing an increase to the two-pion contribution to . This is evident from Figure 2, which compares the estimates of from the full data combination, the radiative return measurements and all other measurements (direct energy scan) in the dominant region. Notably, the deviation between the estimates from KLOE combination and the BABAR data in this range is . With the highly correlated nature of the KLOE combination now having a dominating influence overall in the KNT18 analysis, a large disagreement is also noted between the full data combination and the integral of the BABAR data alone.333This effect is more prominent when considering the evaluation of from the BABAR data alone over the full available energy range. This results in an estimate of compared to the result given in Table 1. It should be noted that similar differences are observed between the integral of the BABAR data alone and full evaluations of from other recent analyses [7, 9, 8, 10, 11]. This is made more apparent when considering Figure 3a. From Figure 2, is clear that the full data combination agrees well with the new BESIII data, the KLOE data and the combination of the remaining direct scan data. Interestingly, however, the BESIII data is in better agreement with the BABAR data at the peak of the resonance where the cross section is largest, slightly alleviating the disagreement between the full data combination and the BABAR data. The tension between data sets is, however, reflected and accounted for in the local error inflation, which results in an increase in the uncertainty of [6].
This estimate of exhibits an increase of the mean value of more than 1 attributed to the inclusion of the new BABAR and CMD-3 data. This can be seen in Figure 3b. Previously, the data combination in the resonance region for this channel was dominated by the SND scans [72] visible in Figure 3b and the now omitted CMD-2 scans [24], which were in good agreement. The BABAR data [52], which due to their precision and correlated uncertainties now dominate the data combination, are higher in this region than both the SND and CMD-2 data. The most recent CMD-3 data are higher still [22]. The reanalysis of the CMD-2 data will prove crucial in resolving the current differences in this channel and, should they agree further with the BABAR and CMD-3 data, would result in a further increase of the estimate from this channel. Overall, the uncertainty has drastically improved, with much of the change being due to a finer clustering over the resonance after the inclusion of the new high statistics BABAR data. However, the disagreement between the data seen in Figure 3b is accounted for in the local error inflation which provides an increase to the uncertainty of of [6].
3.2 Total results for and
From the sum of all hadronic contributions shown in Figure 4, the estimate for from this analysis is [6]
[TABLE]
where the uncertainties include all available correlations and local inflation. Using the same data compilation as for the calculation of , the next-to-leading order (NLO) contribution to is determined to be .
3.3 SM prediction of of the muon
From these results for and , the SM prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is found to be [6]
[TABLE]
Comparing this with the current experimental measurement results in a deviation of , corresponding to a discrepancy.
4 Conclusions
The uncertainty of is entirely dominated by the hadronic contributions, where below GeV, the estimates of and the corresponding uncertainties are determined from the experimentally measured cross sections of individual hadronic final states. These measurements are achieved experimentally via direct energy scan or through radiative return. Many experiments have dedicated programmes to precisely measure these final states, meaning that a vast amount of data is now available and that, in some cases, overall precision has reached the sub-percent level. However, data tensions are evident between measurements of the same hadronic channels from different experiments, which reduces the overall quality of the data combinations used to determine .
The KNT18 analysis has completed a full re-evaluation of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, . Combining all available cross section data, this analysis found and . This has resulted in a new estimate for the Standard Model prediction of , which deviates from the current experimental measurement by .
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