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Welcome to Lepton Moments 2006!

B. Lee RobertsDepartment of Physics

Boston University

http://g2pc1.bu.edu/lept06

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Magnetic Dipole moments started with a proposal by Otto Stern to study space quantization:

Z. Phys. 7, 249 (1921)

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First Result from Otto Stern and Walter Gerlach

Z. Phys. 8, 110 (1922)

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ohne Magnetfeldmit Magnetfeld

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(in modern language)

(and in English)

By 1924 they had published 3 papers plus this review article.

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Phipps and Taylor found the same effect in Hydrogen

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Dirac Equation Predicts g=2

Non-relativistic reduction of the Dirac Equation for an electron in a weak magnetic field.

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But … the hydrogen hyperfine structure not as expected …

Phys. Rev. 71, 914 (1947)

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Kusch and Foley, PR 72, 1256 (1947), gs ≠ 2 ???

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SchwingerThe new Hamiltonian is superior to the original one in essentially three ways:

•it involves the experimental electron mass, rather than the unobservable mechanical mass;

•an electron now interacts with the radiation field only in the presence of an external field…

•the interaction of an electron with an external field is now subject to a finite radiative correction.

These discrepancies can be accounted for by a small additional electron spin magnetic moment.

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Dirac + Pauli moment

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Radiative corrections change g

Dirac Stern-Gerlach

Schwinger Kusch-Foley

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Beyond The SM Value for electron and muon anomalies?

e vrs. : relative contribution of heavier things

e,

e*,

e,

e,

e,

e, e,

e,

e,

e,e,?S

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Electric and Magnetic Dipole MomentsPhys. Rev. 78 (1950)

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Transformation Properties of Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments

An EDM implies both P and T are violated. An EDM at a measureable level would imply non-standard model CP.

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However, it should be emphasized that while such arguments are appealing from the point of view of symmetry, they are not necessarily valid.

Ultimately the validity of all such symmetry arguments must rest on experiment.

Phys. Rev. 109, 225 (1958)

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Norman Ramsey –

A brief History of the search for a permanent EDM of the neutron