Date: October 06, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Title: Muon (g-2) and Other Dipole Interactions: Looking to the Future
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Calendar: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars
Speaker: Lee Roberts
Location: Orange Room

Complete Description:
EXPERIMENTAL SEMINAR

The magnetic dipole interaction played a central role in the development of QED, and continued that role in leading to the standard model. The muon anomalous magnetic moment has served as a benchmark for models of new physics. With new results from BaBar, the confrontation between theory and experiment is now at the 3.2 sigma level, when e+e- data are used to determine the hadronic piece of the standard-model contribution. I will first give an overview of the searches for new physics through dipole interactions, review the standard-model value for the muon anomaly, and then describe the new (g-2) experiment that is proposed for Fermilab.