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Status of the BNL muon (g-2) experiment

  • Ralf Prigl
  • , H. N. Brown
  • , G. Bunce
  • , R. M. Carey
  • , P. Cushman
  • , G. T. Danby
  • , P. T. Debevec
  • , H. Deng
  • , W. Deninger
  • , S. K. Dhawan
  • , V. P. Druzhinin
  • , L. Duong
  • , W. Earle
  • , E. Efstathiadis
  • , F. J.M. Farley
  • , G. V. Fedotovich
  • , S. Giron
  • , F. Gray
  • , M. Grosse Perdekamp
  • , A. Grossmann
  • U. Haeberlen, M. Hare, E. S. Hazen, D. W. Hertzog, V. W. Hughes, M. Iwasaki, K. Jungmann, D. Kawall, M. Kawamura, B. I. Khazin, J. Kindern, F. Krienen, I. Kronkvist, R. Larsen, Y. Y. Lee, W. Liu, I. Logashenko, R. McNabb, W. Meng, J. L. Mi, D. Miller, J. P. Miller, W. M. Morse, P. Neumayer, C. J.G. Onderwater, Y. Orlov, C. Pai, C. Polly, J. Pretz, G. Zu Putlitz, S. I. Redin, O. Rind, B. L. Roberts, N. Ryskulov, R. Sanders, S. Sedykh, Y. K. Semertzidis, S. Serednyakov, Yu M. Shatunov, E. Solodov, M. Sossong, A. Steinmetz, L. R. Sulak, M. Tanaka, C. Timmermans, A. Trofimov, D. Urner, D. Warburton, D. Winn, A. Yamamoto, D. Zimmerman

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Abstract

The union (g-2) experiment at Brookhaven completed a first run in June and July 1997. The main components of the experiment, which include the superconducting inflector, the superferric storage ring, the electrostatic quadrupoles and the lead-scintillating fiber electron calorimeters, have been commissioned satisfactorily. Our first measurement of the ratio R of the spin precession frequency of the positive muon relative to that of a free proton, R =(3.707 219±0.000 048)×10-3, is in good agreement with the previous CERN measurements for μ+ and μ-, and has approximately the same uncertainty as each of these measurements. In spring 1998 a muon kicker was installed and successfully tested in the storage ring magnet and a significant improvement in the knowledge of the muon g-factor is expected from upcoming runs in August 1998 and January 1999.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)182-185
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume48
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • G-factor
  • Muon storage ring
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance
  • Spin precession
  • Standard model
  • Superconducting coils
  • Supersymmetry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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