Abstract: There has been a long-standing discrepancy between the measured and predicted value of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, g-2. After two decades of anticipation, an updated measurement is now available. I'll give an experimentalist's view of the expected value followed by a description of the measurement. As has been widely reported, the mystery of the discrepancy between the measured and predicted value remains.
Bio:
Brendan received his PhD at the University of Hawaii as one of the first graduate students of the Belle Collaboration. He did a postdoc at Brown University working on luminosity measurements and heavy flavor physics at the Dzero experiment. He then became a Wilson Fellow at Fermilab and worked on Higgs searches at Dzero while co-leading efforts to get Muon g-2 off the ground. He received a DOE Early Career Award to design the Muon g-2 straw tracking detectors which have played a key role in extracting the first g-2 result. He is currently the Head of the Muon Department at Fermilab and is working on getting a mu- g-2 run approved as well as R&D for tracker upgrades for the Mu2e-II experiment.
