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Measuring the muon's anomalous magnetic moment to 0.14 ppm
The anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) of the muon was measured with a precision
of 0.54 ppm in Experiment 821 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A difference
of 3.2 standard deviations between this experimental value and the prediction
of the Standard Model has persisted since 2004; in spite of considerable
experimental and theoretical effort, there is no consistent explanation for
this difference. This comparison hints at physics beyond the Standard Model,
but it also imposes strong constraints on those possibilities, which include
supersymmetry and extra dimensions. The collaboration is preparing to relocate
the experiment to Fermilab to continue towards a proposed precision of 0.14
ppm. This will require 20 times more recorded decays than in the previous
measurement, with corresponding improvements in the systematic uncertainties.
We describe the theoretical developments and the experimental upgrades that
provide a compelling motivation for the new measurement.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, presented at International Nuclear Physics
Conference 2010 (INPC 2010
Strange Quark Mass from the Invariant Mass Distribution of Cabibbo-Suppressed Tau Decays
Quark mass corrections to the tau hadronic width play a significant role only
for the strange quark, hence providing a method for determining its mass. The
experimental input is the vector plus axial-vector strange spectral function
derived from a complete study of tau decays into strange hadronic final states
performed by ALEPH. New results on strange decay modes from other experiments
are also incorporated. The present analysis determines the strange quark mass
at the Mtau mass scale using moments of the spectral function. Justified
theoretical constraints are applied to the nonperturbative components and
careful attention is paid to the treatment of the perturbative expansions of
the moments which exhibit convergence problems. The result obtained,
m_s(Mtau^2) = (120 +- 11_exp +- 8_Vus +- 19_th) MeV = (120^+21_-26) MeV, is
stable over the scale from Mtau down to about 1.4 GeV. Evolving this result to
customary scales yields m_s(1 GeV^2) = (160^+28_-35) MeV and m_s(4 GeV^2) =
(116^+20_-25) MeV.Comment: LaTex, 8 pages, 4 figures (EPS
High Efficiency Positron Accumulation for High-Precision Measurements
Positrons are accumulated within a Penning trap designed to make more precise
measurements of the positron and electron magnetic moments. The retractable
radioactive source used is weak enough to require no license for handling
radioactive material and the radiation dosage one meter from the source gives
an exposure several times smaller than the average radiation dose on the
earth's surface. The 100 mK trap is mechanically aligned with the 4.2 K
superconducting solenoid that produces a 6 tesla magnetic trapping field with a
direct mechanical coupling.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure
Form factors of radiative pion decays in nonlocal chiral quark models
We study the radiative pion decay pi+ -> e+ nu_e gamma within nonlocal chiral
quark models that include wave function renormalization. In this framework we
analyze the momentum dependence of the vector form factor F_V(q^2), and the
slope of the axial-vector form factor F_A(q^2) at threshold. Our results are
compared with available experimental information and with the predictions given
by the NJL model. In addition we calculate the low energy constants l_5 and
l_6, comparing our results with the values obtained in chiral perturbation
theory.Comment: 22 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1011.640
Two-photon form factors of the pi0, eta and eta-prime mesons in the chiral theory with resonances
We have developed a phenomenological approach which describes very well the
pi0, eta and eta-prime meson production in the two-photon interactions. The
simultaneous description of the pi0, eta and eta-prime meson two-photon form
factors is consistent with data in the space-like region. The obtained form
factors are implemented in the event generator EKHARA and the simulated cross
sections are presented. Uncertainties in the measured form factors coming from
the model dependence in Monte Carlo simulations are studied. The model
predictions for the form factor slopes at the origin are given and the high-Q2
limit is also discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; two-column revtex4 styl
Chiral Defect Fermions and the Layered Phase
Chiral defect fermions on the lattice in 4+1 dimensions are analyzed using
mean field theory. The fermion propagator has a localized chiral mode in weak
coupling but loses it when the coupling in the unphysical fifth direction
becomes too large. A layered phase \`a la Fu-Nielsen appears where the theory
is vector-like in every layer.Comment: 9 pages + postscript figure (We have correctly quoted the work of our
reference 10 in the paper
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