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Title: Hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment from four-flavor lattice QCD

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.

We calculate the contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment hadronic vacuum polarization from the connected diagrams of up and down quarks, omitting electromagnetism. We employ QCD gauge-field configurations with dynamical $u, d, s,$ and $$c$$ quarks and the physical pion mass, and analyze five ensembles with lattice spacings ranging from $a≈0.06$ to 0.15 fm. The up- and down-quark masses in our simulations have equal masses ml. We obtain, in this world where all pions have the mass of the $π^0$, $$10^{10}a_μ^{ll}(conn.)=637.8(8.8)$$, in agreement with independent lattice-QCD calculations. We then combine this value with published lattice-QCD results for the connected contributions from strange, charm, and bottom quarks, and an estimate of the uncertainty due to the fact that our calculation does not include strong-isospin breaking, electromagnetism, or contributions from quark-disconnected diagrams. Our final result for the total $O(α^2)$ hadronic-vacuum polarization to the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment is $$10^{10}a_μ^{HVP,LO}=699(15)_{u,d}(1)_{s,c,b}$$, where the errors are from the light-quark and heavy-quark contributions, respectively. Our result agrees with both ab-initio lattice-QCD calculations and phenomenological determinations from experimental $e^+e^-$-scattering data. It is $1.3σ$ below the “no new physics” value of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution inferred from combining the BNL E821 measurement of $$a_μ$$ with theoretical calculations of the other contributions.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
Fermilab Lattice, HPQCD, and MILC Collaborations
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; FG02-13ER41976; SC0009998; SC0010005; SC0010120; SC0015655; TG-MCA93S002
OSTI ID:
1600067
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1529343; OSTI ID: 1764432; OSTI ID: 1834560; OSTI ID: 1903110
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-19-064-T; PRVDAQ; 034512
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Vol. 101 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 68 works
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