Wednesday 14 April 2010

Speaker:   Dr. Thomas Teubner   (Liverpool Univ.)

Title:   g-2 of the muon: touchstone of the Standard Model, keyhole to New Physics?

Abstract:

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, g-2, is one of the great success stories of Quantum Field Theory
and the Standard Model, albeit various twists and turns. We will review the Standard Model prediction of
g-2 and confront it with the formidably accurate measurement from Brookhaven. The emerging discrepancy
between experiment and theory has survived intense scrutiny and may well mark the breaking point of the
Standard Model. If this is the case, supersymmetry could explain the discrepancy. For the future, further
improvements of the theoretical prediction are in reach. With new experiments planned, g-2 will remain at
the forefront of particle physics, testing the Standard Model and constraining the physics beyond.