物理セミナー

日時: 2006-07-11 16:00 - 16:00
場所: 3号館3階会議室325
会議名: The Muon: A Laboratory for Particle Physics
連絡先: 物理セミナー世話人
講演者: Lee Roberts  (Boston University)
講演言語: 英語
URL: http://seminar.kek.jp/physics
アブストラクト: Since its discovery, the muon has provided information which has been central to our understanding of the standard model of subatomic physics. From its lifetime we get the Fermi weak-coupling constant G_{?mu}. With its decay we studied the V-A weak interaction, and have learned about lepton flavor conservation. From negative muon capture on the nucleus we learned about the weak couplings induced by the strong interaction. From its anomalous magnetic moment we learned that the muon is a point particle, but with a mass scale which provides a relative sensitivity of 40,000 to higher-mass scales, compared to the electron's anomaly. We have learned about hadronic and weak radiative corrections, along with a significant sensitivity to potential new, as yet undiscovered, virtual particles. In this talk I will give an overview of this physics, with a special focus on the muon g-2 experiment at Brookhaven, and lepton dipole moments in general.

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