Lepton Magnetic Moments: What They Tell Us
Fred Jegerlehner

TL;DR
Recent precise measurements of the muon g-2, combined with advanced lattice QCD calculations, have reinforced the Standard Model's validity, reducing previous discrepancies and challenging the need for new physics explanations.
Contribution
The paper highlights the impact of improved lattice QCD calculations on muon g-2 theory, aligning it more closely with experimental results and diminishing signs of beyond Standard Model physics.
Findings
Lattice QCD results increased the hadronic contributions, reducing the theory-experiment gap.
The discrepancy between dispersive and lattice results can be explained by rho-gamma mixing corrections.
The Standard Model now appears more consistent with muon g-2 measurements, challenging previous BSM indications.
Abstract
Recently, the exciting new Fermilab (FNAL) Muon g-2 measurement impressively confirmed the final Brookhaven (BNL) result from 2004, and with a result four times more precise, has launched a new serious attack on the Standard Model (SM). On the theoretical side, ab initio lattice QCD (LQCD) calculations of hadronic vacuum polarization have made remarkable progress. They are now the new standard for studying the leading non-perturbative contributions, which have previously hindered matching with the precision required for full exploitation of the experimental results. The lattice results affected both leading hadronic contributions the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) and the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) contributions by increasing the previously generally accepted to hadrons based dispersion relation results. The shifts reduced the discrepancy between theory and experiment,…
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TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Computational Physics and Python Applications · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
