# NuFact 2022: The 23rd International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators

July 30, 2022 to August 6, 2022
Cliff Lodge
US/Mountain timezone

## Preparing for MUonE experiment --- what can we learn from lattice and dispersive data?

Aug 4, 2022, 11:20 AM
30m
Magpie A

### Speaker

The hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) is one of the main contributors to the total uncertainty in the theoretical prediction of the muon $g - 2$. The HVP term is historically obtained from a data-driven calculation based on a dispersive approach from time-like processes. To improve the theoretical prediction of HVP, in parallel to the lattice communities' effort to obtain HVP by space-like simulations, an alternative space-like data-driven approach is proposed, known as the MUonE experiment. In this talk, we first review the advantage of exploiting the space-like over the time-like processes. We present an overview of lattice calculations of the HVP term and discuss how the choice of fit functions affects the systematic error in lattice calculations and potentially the MUonE experiment. In particular, we explore Pad\'e-based fits and investigate their effects when employed on the space-like data with the precision expected from the MUonE experiment.