The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)

exmadscientist 4 years ago |

More discussion, back from the data release announcement in April: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-is-it-when-somet...

(Warning, extremely jargon heavy, particularly the comments.)

kadoban 4 years ago | |

Cool! From my layman's read of that, the odds are good for new physics and/or a new particle, and it sounds like said new particle is actually in a soon-detectable range. That's pretty ideal!

hutrdvnj 4 years ago | | |

Yes, but "soon" in experimental particle physics means something like: probably within the next 20 years.

kadoban 4 years ago | | |

Ya, physics does seem to require quite a bit of patience. Anything that could possibly get figured out during my lifetime I count as a win :)

exmadscientist 4 years ago | | |

And keep in mind that these are theorists, the eternal optimists. Or think of your (least?) favorite group of sports fans, just before the season starts, talking about how awesome it's going to be. That mental image isn't too far off...

(In case it wasn't obvious, I'm on the experimental side of things. There's a reason Jester says we're i brutti, and he isn't wrong....)

showerst 4 years ago |

There's also a nice discussion from Sixty Symbols when the news came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk

s_gourichon 4 years ago |

It's "explained" to the reader of the comics. The title had me expect it was "explained scientifically", in other words "solved by the scientists".

mikewarot 4 years ago |

So the Fermilab team got a bigger value for σ than Brookhaven? What is σ?

It took me a while to find that fallen forward q - lower case sigma σ

ayane_m 4 years ago |

Can the page title contain markup? On my browser, I see `<i>g</i>` in the title on the tab.

peter303 4 years ago |

I just heard Wilczek describe this

Koshkin 4 years ago | |

https://nextcloud.fysik.su.se/s/ii79B9Xyaqq8EdS?dir=undefine...