Future Muon Dipole Moment Measurements

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress in measuring the muon's magnetic dipole moment, discusses a new proposal for detecting its electric dipole moment, and highlights how these precision experiments can explore physics beyond current theories.

Contribution

It introduces a novel experimental proposal for measuring the muon electric dipole moment and contextualizes it within the broader scope of precision tests probing new physics.

Findings

Advances in muon magnetic dipole moment measurements

Proposal for a new muon electric dipole moment search

Potential to explore physics beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

From the famous experiments of Stern and Gerlach to the present, measurements of magnetic dipole moments, and searches for electric dipole moments of ``elementary'' particles have played a major role in our understanding of sub-atomic physics. In this talk I discuss the progress on measurements and theory of the magnetic dipole moment of the muon. I also discuss a new proposal to search for a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the muon and put it into the more general context of other EDM searches. These experiments, along with searches for the lepton flavor violating decays $\mu \to e \gamma$ and $\mu^- + A \to e^- + A$, provide a path to the high-energy frontier through precision measurements.