Why is the Muon g-2 Experiment Shifting Time?
Abstract
Scientists on Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment are using a finely tuned clock to precisely measure how fast the muon — a heavy cousin of the electron — precesses, or wobbles, in the presence of a magnetic field. To remove subconscious bias from the experiment's measurements, in March 2018, two Fermilab scientists outside the Muon g-2 collaboration set the clock to a certain frequency. For the period that Muon g-2 is taking data, only they will know that setting. This bias-removal technique is called clock blinding.
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- FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States))
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1646484
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- Multimedia
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; MUON G-2, SHIFTING TIME; POSITRON; BLINDING FREQUENCIES; CLOCK BLINDING
Citation Formats
Kiburg, Brendan, Lyken, Joe, Labe, Kevin, and Bock, Greg. Why is the Muon g-2 Experiment Shifting Time?. United States: N. p., 2018.
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Kiburg, Brendan, Lyken, Joe, Labe, Kevin, & Bock, Greg. Why is the Muon g-2 Experiment Shifting Time?. United States.
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"Why is the Muon g-2 Experiment Shifting Time?". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1646484.
@article{osti_1646484,
title = {Why is the Muon g-2 Experiment Shifting Time?},
author = {Kiburg, Brendan and Lyken, Joe and Labe, Kevin and Bock, Greg},
abstractNote = {Scientists on Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment are using a finely tuned clock to precisely measure how fast the muon — a heavy cousin of the electron — precesses, or wobbles, in the presence of a magnetic field. To remove subconscious bias from the experiment's measurements, in March 2018, two Fermilab scientists outside the Muon g-2 collaboration set the clock to a certain frequency. For the period that Muon g-2 is taking data, only they will know that setting. This bias-removal technique is called clock blinding.},
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year = {Mon Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
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