The muon g-2 discrepancy: new physics or a relatively light Higgs?

Details The muon g-2 discrepancy: new physics or a relatively light Higgs? The muon g-2 discrepancy: new physics or a relatively light Higgs?

2010-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/1001.4528v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the PHIPSI09 Workshop, Oct 13-16, 2009, Beijing, China

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After a brief review of the muon g-2 status, we discuss hypothetical errors in the Standard Model prediction that might explain the present discrepancy with the experimental value. None of them seems likely. In particular, a hypothetical increase of the hadroproduction cross section in low-energy e+e- collisions could bridge the muon g-2 discrepancy, but it is shown to be unlikely in view of current experimental error estimates. If, nonetheless, this turns out to be the explanation of the discrepancy, then the 95% CL upper bound on the Higgs boson mass is reduced to about 135GeV which, in conjunction with the experimental 114.4GeV 95% CL lower bound, leaves a narrow window for the mass of this fundamental particle.

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