Published February 24, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Four-flavour leading-order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment

  • 1. Humboldt Univ. zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
  • 2. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba (Japan)
  • 3. Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia (Cyprus)
  • 4. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  • 5. The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia (Cyprus)
  • 6. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

Description

We present a four-flavour lattice calculation of the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, aμhvp, arising from quark-connected Feynman graphs. It is based on ensembles featuring Nf=2+1+1 dynamical twisted mass fermions generated by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration (ETMC). Several light quark masses are used in order to yield a controlled extrapolation to the physical pion mass. We employ three lattice spacings to examine lattice artefacts and several different volumes to check for finite-size effects. Including the complete first two generations of quarks allows for a direct comparison with phenomenological determinations of aμhvp. The final result involving an estimate of the systematic uncertainty aμhvp=6.74 (21)(18)·10-8 shows a good overall agreement with these computations

Availability note (English)

Available from: DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2014)099; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period from OSTI using http://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1121883

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2014
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
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ISSN
1029-8479

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Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC05-06OR23177
Collaborations
The ETM collaboration
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science (United States)
Secondary number(s)
JLAB-THY--13-1771; DOE/OR/23177--2695; OSTIID--1121883