Isospin Breaking Corrections to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation from the Lattice
Isospin Breaking Corrections to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation from the Lattice
- Event time: 2:00pm
- Event date: 17th October 2018
- Speaker: Dr Vera Guelpers (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is one of the most precisely measured quantities in particle physics and can therefore serve as a high-precision test of the Standard Model. The lagest uncertainty in the Standard Model prediction comes from the hadronic sector, where the leading contribution is given by the Hadronic Vacuum Polaisation (HVP). A determination of the HVP from lattice QCD aiming at sub-percent level precision requires to include isospin breaking corrections in the computation. I will discuss how these corrections can be included in a lattice calculation and present results for the QED and strong isospin breaking corrections to the HVP at physical quark masses.
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