{"id":169718,"date":"2023-08-15T03:27:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/breaking-physics-muon-g-2-experiment-reinforces-surprise-result-setting-up-ultimate-showdown"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:27:59","slug":"breaking-physics-muon-g-2-experiment-reinforces-surprise-result-setting-up-ultimate-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/breaking-physics-muon-g-2-experiment-reinforces-surprise-result-setting-up-ultimate-showdown","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Physics: Muon G-2 Experiment Reinforces Surprise Result, Setting Up \u201cUltimate Showdown\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-physics-muon-g-2-experiment-reinforces-surprise-result-setting-up-ultimate-showdown2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings at Fermilab show discrepancy between theory and experiment, which may lead to new physics beyond the Standard Model.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2.<\/p>\n<p>An international collaboration of scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory <a href=\"https:\/\/muon-g-2.fnal.gov\/\">announced<\/a> the much-anticipated updated measurement on August 10. This new value bolsters the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.fnal.gov\/2021\/04\/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics\/\">first result<\/a> they announced in April 2021, and sets up a showdown between theory and experiment over 20 years in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings at Fermilab show discrepancy between theory and experiment, which may lead to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2. An international collaboration of scientists working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}