https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159601002
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
1 Dipartimento di Fisica e di Scienze della Terra, Messina.
2 INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
a e-mail: antonioanastasi89@gmail.com
Published online: 2 June 2015
There is a long standing discrepancy between the Standard Model prediction for the muon g-2 and the value measured by the Brookhaven E821 Experiment. At present the discrepancy stands at about three standard deviations, with a comparable accuracy between experiment and theory. Two new proposals – at Fermilab and J-PARC – plan to improve the experimental uncertainty by a factor of 4, and it is expected that there will be a significant reduction in the uncertainty of the Standard Model prediction. I will review the status of the planned experiment at Fermilab, E989, which will analyse 21 times more muons than the BNL experiment and discuss how the systematic uncertainty will be reduced by a factor of 3 such that a precision of 0.14 ppm can be achieved.
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