Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag...
by tompagenet2 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:28PM
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Genuine question from ignorance. Is this related to this work at CERN? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron...
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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag...
by yk on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:48PM
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Yes and no. It is two very different experimental situations, the magnetic moment is at rest (well, in an accelerator but the rest frame is defined by the muon) and the R_k anomaly is in an collision. On the other hand, as a theorists the immediate thing one thinks about is lepton universality, that the only difference between a electron and a muon is its mass, is violated. So there will be a lot of work this year on trying to explain both results at the same time.