31 July 2017 to 4 August 2017
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
US/Central timezone

Hadronic contributions to muon g-2 from lattice QCD

2 Aug 2017, 14:42
20m
Curia II (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Curia II

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Presentation Quark and Lepton Flavor Quark and Lepton Flavor

Speaker

Dr Ruth Van de Water (Fermilab)

Description

The Muon g-2 Experiment that just commenced running at Fermilab intends to probe the present 3-sigma tension between theory and experiment by reducing the experimental uncertainty by a factor of four. In order, however, to determine definitively whether any future observed deviation is due to new physics, the Standard-Model theory error must be brought to the same level of precision. Lattice QCD provides the only first-principles approach for calculating the hadronic contributions to the muon g-2, which are the dominant sources of error in the Standard-Model value. I review recent progress on lattice-QCD calculations of the hadronic contributions to the muon g-2, and also discuss future plans and prospects for reducing the theory error to the level of the Muon g-2 and planned J-PARC experiments.

Primary author

Dr Ruth Van de Water (Fermilab)

Presentation materials