UMass Amherst researchers contribute to landmark findings
April 7, 2021
David Flay examines the Muon g-2 plunging probe installation. Photo courtesy DOE.
AMHERST, Mass. – The long-awaited 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, made with unprecedented precision and to which UMass Amherst’s David Kawall’s research group made key contributions, confirms a discrepancy that has been gnawing at researchers for decades.
“Today is an extraordinary day, long awaited not only by us but by the whole international physics community,” said Graziano Venanzoni, co-spokesperson of the Muon g-2 experiment and physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics. “A large amount of credit goes to our young researche
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