Muon g-2 Experiment News Archive
Driving Innovation and Discovery: DOE's Office of Science 2023 Year in Review
Thursday, December 21, 2023
DOE’s Office of Science (SC) has made incredible headway over the course of 2023.
Muon g-2 Doubles Down With Latest Measurement, Explores Uncharted Territory in Search of New Physics
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Scientists working on Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment released the world’s most precise measurement yet of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
Morse and Roberts Win W.K.H. Panofsky Prize for Muon g-2 Experiment
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Physicists helped lead experiment that revealed discrepancy with Standard Model-based predictions and sparked ongoing experimental and theoretical search for new physics.
527th Brookhaven Lecture: New Physics, Measuring Muon Magnetism
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Join Vladimir Tishchenko for this talk about a hunt for new physics at 4 p.m. today, May 25, on Zoom.
First Results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment Strengthen Evidence of New Physics
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Combined results from Fermilab and Brookhaven show strong evidence that our best theoretical model of the subatomic world is incomplete.
Background on Brookhaven Lab's Involvement in the Muon g-2 Experiment
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Brookhaven Lab’s experiment to produce “a precision measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon” (Muon g-2) was constructed from 1989 to 1996 and collected data from 1997 to 2001.
The Mystery of the Muon's Magnetism
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment.
The Many Paths of Muon Math
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Here’s how physicists calculate g-2, the value that will determine whether the muon is giving us a sign of new physics.
Physicists Publish Worldwide Consensus of Muon Magnetic Moment Calculation
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Result differs from 2004 experimental measurement at Brookhaven Lab, but not significantly enough to say definitively that the discrepancy between theory and experiment is real; the world awaits a new result from Fermilab’s current Muon g-2 experiment
Four Years of Calculations Lead to New Insights into Muon Anomaly
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Researchers have come up with newly precise calculations aimed at understanding a key disconnect between physics theory and experimental measurements.
Theorists Publish Highest-Precision Prediction of Muon Magnetic Anomaly
Friday, July 13, 2018
Latest calculation based on how subatomic muons interact with all known particles comes out just in time for comparison with precision measurements at new “Muon g-2” experiment
Fermilab Physicist Studying Quirky Behavior of Muons Receives Brookhaven's Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Tammy Walton will give two talks at Brookhaven Lab to describe her work on the new Muon g-2 experiment now operating at Fermilab. Walton's first talk will be held Tuesday, May 1, at 3:30 p.m. in the Large Seminar Room in Physics (Bldg. 510).
Muon Machine Makes Milestone Magnetic Map
Monday, January 29, 2018
The Muon g-2 magnet has begun the important step of measuring the experiment’s magnetic field to unprecedented precision.
Muon Magnet's Moment has Arrived
Thursday, June 1, 2017
The Muon g-2 experiment, relocated to Fermilab, has begun its search for phantom particles with its world-famous and well-traveled electromagnet
Graduate Student Eric Metodiev Finds Freedom and His Voice in Physics
Monday, August 22, 2016
Nearly every summer since 10th grade, Eric Metodiev, now 22, has participated in educational programs sponsored by Brookhaven National Lab. He graduated from Harvard in May with a joint degree in physics and mathematics and will start graduate work at MIT this fall, but has already had the opportunity to make a real contribution in his chosen field.
DOE's Office of Science Selects 49 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science has selected 49 scientists from across the nation – including 22 from DOE's national laboratories and 27 from U.S. universities – to receive significant funding for research as part of DOE's Early Career Research Program.
Searching for Signs of a Force from the 'Dark Side' in Particle Collisions at RHIC
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and other experiments nearly rule out role of "dark photons" as an explanation for the "g-2" anomaly.
The Big Move: A Last Look at the Muon g-2 Ring's Departure from Brookhaven
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Brookhaven employees and expert engineers guided the massive electromagnet across Long Island on the first leg of its journey to Illinois.
Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Fermilab
Monday, July 29, 2013
The 50-foot-wide electromagnet for the Muon g-2 experiment has completed its five-week journey from New York to Illinois.
Massive Particle Storage Ring Begins 3,200-Mile Trek
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The 50-foot-wide electromagnet will begin its voyage over land and sea to its new home at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, where it will become the centerpiece of a new groundbreaking experiment.
Revolutionary Muon Experiment to Begin With 3,200-mile Move of 50-Foot-Wide Particle Storage Ring
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Scientists from 26 institutions around the world are planning a new experiment that could open the doors to new realms of particle physics. But first, they have to bring the core of this experiment, a complex electromagnet that spans 50 feet in diameter, from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.
Brookhaven Lab's Gianluigi De Geronimo Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Monday, April 29, 2013
Gianluigi De Geronimo, a leading electrical engineer who designs unique, state-of-the-art microelectronics at Brookhaven Lab's Instrumentation Division, was honored by Battelle as an "Inventor of the Year."
Physics Phoenix: Plotting the Journey of Muon g – 2
Friday, September 30, 2011
The muon g - 2 storage ring is all set for a cross-country trip to Fermilab, where it will be restored atop existing high-intensity accelerator facilities.
New g-2 Measurement Deviates Further From Standard Model
Thursday, January 8, 2004
The latest result from an international collaboration of scientists investigating how the spin of a muon is affected as this type of subatomic particle moves through a magnetic field deviates further than previous measurements from theoretical predictions.
Physicists Announce Latest Muon g-2 Measurement
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Scientists today announced their latest result from a ground-breaking g-2 experiment. The new measurement, based on data collected in 2000, directly confronts the so-called Standard Model of particle physics and strengthens scientists’ confidence in a previous measurement reported by the same group in February 2001
Update on the g-2 Experiment
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Brookhaven National Laboratory's February 2001 announcement that the muon g-2 experiment had detected a possible "hole" in the Standard Model of particle physics was based on comparing an experimentally derived measurement for "g-2" with a value predicted by the Standard Model theory.
Physicists Announce Possible Violation of Standard Model of Particle Physics
Thursday, February 8, 2001
Scientists announced an experimental result that directly confronts the so-called Standard Model of particle physics.
The g-2 Experiment at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, February 5, 2001
A backgrounder on measuring the muon’s spin anomaly at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, first published in 2001.
