g-2 on the Lattice

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

The muon anomalous magnetic moment, g-2, provides a precision test of the Standard Model, which currently shows a discrepancy of about three standard deviations with the E821 experiment at BNL. The leading theory errors correspond to QCD corrections. I review recent lattice QCD calculations of the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) and hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) contributions to the muon g-2 by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations. Both are computed with 2+1 flavors of light quarks with physical masses. For the HVP both quark-connected and disconnected diagrams are included while the latter is in progress for the HLbL part. I will address systematic errors and the precision of the lattice results that can be achieved before the E989 experiment at FNAL which seeks to reduce the experimental uncertainty by four.

Authors

  • Thomas Blum

    University of Connecticut