The Muon Gā€“2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)

by AliCollinson 7/27/2021, 3:51:44 PM with 6 comments
  • by exmadscientiston 7/27/2021, 4:40:49 PM

    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.)

  • by showerston 7/27/2021, 5:58:29 PM

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

  • by s_gourichonon 7/28/2021, 8:52:47 AM

    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".

  • by mikewaroton 7/28/2021, 3:39:43 AM

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

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

  • by ayane_mon 7/27/2021, 8:04:40 PM

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

  • by peter303on 7/27/2021, 5:22:34 PM

    I just heard Wilczek describe this