Muon and electron g-2

1. Muon and electron g-2 A charged particle which has spin angular momentum s will have also a magnetic moment m. The ratio of the magnetic to angular moments m/sin classical physics would be expected to be q/2m if the charge q and mass m of the particle were distributed in the same way. Reality is more complicated. Deviations from this classical result are contained in a parameter g, defined by m/s = g(e/2m). Dirac theory predicts g=2 for a point-like spin ½ particle. Measured values are; gP =2.793... ge =2.002... gm =2.002... The proton is not at all like a Dirac particle - electron and muon are close. Deviations of g from 2 are described by the parameter a=(g-2)/2. Within the Standard Model non-zero ais expected from higher order corrections. The first order correction is the same for electrons and muons and is due to this diagram  Which gives a correction Da = a/2p = 0.001161 Beyond that things get more interesting...

2. Muon g-2 measurement A muon g-2 experiment is currently running at Brookhaven and reporting updated results every year, most recently in January 2004.

3. g-2 magnet 3 GeV m+ are held in a circular orbit by a vertical 1.45 T field in a 14 m diameter ring. To extract a from wa it is necessary to know the average field in the ring. Seventeen mobile and 150 fixed NMR probes measure B to 0.4 ppm by reference to proton m. check p=0.3×B×R

4. Why is (g-2) special The Standard Model can be tested by measuring muon (g-2). The experiment is unusually accurate compared with typical particle-physics measurements. The subtraction of 2 ( i.e. 2.00000000000000...) is done for us by the physics, so the measurement gets directly to the radiative corrections. For muons in a circular orbit in a magnetic field B and zero electric field, the orbital or cyclotron frequency is wc = (e/mc)x(B/g) and the spin precession frequency is ws = (e/mc)x(B/g + ½(g-2)B). The experiment is sensitive to the muon polarisation at a fixed point in the orbit*, so it measures the difference between wcand wsdirectly. The big terms cancel leaving just the term containing a ( a = ½(g-2) ): wa = wc–ws = (e/mc)aB So all the experiment has to do is accurately measure the frequency wa and the magnetic field B. Technology for frequency measurement is very accurate (much more than mass, length, etc). The magnetic field is converted to a frequency with proton NMR - the value of gP is known to 1 part in 108. (*) The measured quantity is the counting rate of electrons with energy over some threshold, versus time since the start of the fill. Electron energy is correlated with muon spin because the decay electron direction is preferentially in the direction of the muon spin. If muon spin is pointing in direction of muon motion in the lab, the electrons have higher energy because the two boosts add. If muon spin is pointing backwards the boosts partially cancel and electron energy is low.

5. Magic momentum The formulae on the previous slide were for zero electric field. But E=0 is not practical in a real experiment because - The magnet holds the muons in position in the horizontal direction but it does nothing to constrain their vertical movement. A quadrupole electrostatic field is necessary to stop them escaping up or down. Relativity tells us that a moving electric field is equivalent to a magnetic field – the muons will feel an extra magnetic field which causes a change to their precession frequency Dwa= e/mc . [ 1/(g2-1) – a ] . bE There is “magic” point at g2=1+1/a or pm=3.098 GeV at which this correction cancels.

6. Results The e- (or e+) count rate oscillates at wa and dies away as the m- (or m+) decay or escape from the ring. It is fitted with a function which takes account of pileup, muon loss, betatron oscillations and wa . The latest result for negative muons is am- = 11,659,214(8)(3)×10-10 Last year there was a similar result for positive muons; am+ = 11,659,204(7)(5)×10-10 Results are consistent - no CP violation. Systematic Statistical

7. Theory Many higher order corrections must be added to the basic a = 1 + a/2p to reach a Standard Model prediction that is as accurate as the experimental value. First there are the higher order QED corrections, now known up to 5th order in (a/p), their coefficients are approximately ½, 0.765, 24.1, 126, 930. The theoretical uncertainty from these corrections is negligible. Then there are electroweak corrections, such as the left-hand diagram above. They are known to second order and their theoretical uncertainty is negligible. One of them involves the Higgs but it is very small, because the Higgs-muon coupling is small, because the muon is light. Finally there are corrections which involve quark loops, such as the two shown above right.

8. Hadronic corrections Grey area represents something not calculable by perturbative QCD. Initial production of q-qbar is easy (QED). But as soon as created the quarks start to emit gluons, gluons emit more gluons, gluons split to q-qbar, etc. All low energy  high as non-perturbative. The situation appears hopeless. But theorists have a trick up their sleeve: The grey blob is this diagram is closely related to the grey area in this diagram, and this cross section has been measured. In fact the correction to am is proportional to the integral from 0 to  of s(e+e-hadrons).(mm2/3s).ds . Where the 1/s term means that in practice the upper limit is irrelevant and it is the low end of the energy range that matters, around 0.3 to 3 GeV. Old experimental data has been dug out from the time when e+e- collisions at a few GeV was frontier physics. New experiments to re-measure s(e+e-hadrons) more accurately are in progress. This is currently the biggest uncertainty in the prediction of am. Another possibility is to measure the energy spectrum of hadrons produced in t decay. Here the experimental data is more accurate but the theory relating it to am has some approximations which are not accepted by all theorists.

9. Experiment versus theory Measurements from CERN and Brookhaven Derived from t decay Derived from e+e- Jump due to sign error in light-by-light scattering calculation. The Future Theory error should improve soonish as new s(e+e-hadrons) results come out. Dam(QED) = 1165847 ± 0.3 Dam(had.) = 687 ± 6 Dam(l-b-l) = 8 ± 4 Dam(weak) = 15 ± 0.2 The Brookhaven experiment that made the recent measurements has now finished. There will probably be another improvement sometime - maybe not soon - gap of 25 years last time.

10. SUSY limits At present the measured value of am is 2.7 (1.6) standard deviations higher than the Standard Model prediction where the hadronic correction is based on the e+e- (t decay) data. A real discrepancy would be a signal for physics beyond the SM and super-symmetry is one of the most popular ideas. There are many variations of SUSY but very roughly; DamSUSY  130×10-11 . ( 100 GeV / mSUSY )2 . tanb * If we take the theory based on the e+e- data; at 2s confidence 53 GeV < mSUSY/sqrt(tanb) < 136 GeV, at 3 s confidence the upper limit goes to . neutralino smuon photon (*) tanb is a free parameter of SUSY, thought to be in the range 4-40 In supersymmetry every SM particle has a partner with the same quantum numbers except for spin which differs by half. E.g. the muon has a spin 0 partner called a scalar muon or smuon. The photon has a spin ½ partner called a photino, or more generally if the neutral SUSY particles are mixed states they are called neutralinos.

11. Electron g-2 • The electron g-2 is even more precisely measured than the muon value ( 350 times more ). However, it is much less sensitive to new physics.   The lower mass of the electron means that there is less energy around to borrow for the creation of new particles. The effect of massive particles is suppressed by a factor of (mm/me)2  40000. • The QED theoretical value is know up to a4 and hadronic and electroweak corrections have negligible uncertainty. • Assuming QED is correct, ae can be interpreted as a measure of a . It is consistent with and much more accurate than the value from the quantum Hall effect. • -1 from ae = 137.035 999 58(52) • -1 from QH = 137.036 003 00(270) Electron g-2 is a brilliant test of QED but does not test other aspects of the standard model