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Physics group joins in announcement of stronger evidence of new physics revealed by Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment
University of Michigan
The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists’ best theory, the Standard Model of particle physics.
This landmark result, published in Physical Review Letters, confirms a discrepancy that has been gnawing at researchers for decades.
“The result of our first year of data is the most highly anticipated particle physics result in nearly a decade, and an exceptional accomplishment for the incredibly talented collaboration of experimenters,” said Tim Chupp, a University of Michigan professor of physics, who leads a group of U-M undergrads, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who have collaborated on the Fermilab effort from the start.