We present a new measurement of the positive muon magnetic anomaly, , from the Fermilab Muon Experiment using data collected in 2019 and 2020. We have analyzed more than 4 times the number of positrons from muon decay than in our previous result from 2018 data. The systematic error is reduced by more than a factor of 2 due to better running conditions, a more stable beam, and improved knowledge of the magnetic field weighted by the muon distribution, , and of the anomalous precession frequency corrected for beam dynamics effects, . From the ratio , together with precisely determined external parameters, we determine (0.21 ppm). Combining this result with our previous result from the 2018 data, we obtain (0.20 ppm). The new experimental world average is (0.19 ppm), which represents a factor of 2 improvement in precision.
15 April 2013 in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
A new facility named SPARC_LAB has been recently launched at the INFN National Laboratories in Frascati, merging the potentialities of the former projects SPARC and PLASMONX. We describe in this paper the status and the future perspectives at the SPARC_LAB facility.
Two high-accuracy goniometers equipped with two bent silicon crystals were installed in the betatron cleaning insertion of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its long shutdown. First beam tests were recently performed at the LHC with 450 GeV/c and 6500 GeV/c stored proton beams to investigate the feasibility of beam halo collimation assisted by bent crystals. For the first time channeling of 6500 GeV/c protons was observed in a particle accelerator. A strong reduction of beam losses due to nuclear inelastic interactions in the aligned crystal in comparison with its amorphous orientation was detected. The loss reduction value was about 24. Thus, the results show that deflection of particles by a bent crystal due to channeling is effective for this record particle energy
A new measurement of the magnetic anomaly a μ of the positive muon is presented based on data taken from 2020 to 2023 by the Muon g − 2 Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). This dataset contains over 2.5 times the total statistics of our previous results. From the ratio of the precession frequencies for muons and protons in our storage ring magnetic field, together with precisely known ratios of fundamental constants, we determine a μ = 1 165 920 710 ( 162 ) × 10 − 12 (139 ppb) for the new datasets, and a μ = 1 165 920 705 ( 148 ) × 10 − 12 (127 ppb) when combined with our previous results. The new experimental world average, dominated by the measurements at FNAL, is a μ ( exp ) = 1 165 920 715 ( 145 ) × 10 − 12 (124 ppb). The measurements at FNAL have improved the precision on the world average by over a factor of 4.
We present an idea for creation of a crystalline undulator and report its first realization. One face of a silicon crystal was given periodic microscratches (grooves) by means of a diamond blade. The x-ray tests of the crystal deformation due to a given periodic pattern of surface scratches have shown that a sinusoidal-like shape is observed on both the scratched surface and the opposite (unscratched) face of the crystal; that is, a periodic sinusoidal-like deformation goes through the bulk of the crystal. This opens up the possibility for experiments with high-energy particles channeled in a crystalline undulator, a novel compact source of radiation.