A continuum determination of the strong isospin-breaking contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment

First-principles lattice determinations of the Standard Model expectation for the leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon have become sufficiently precise that further improvement requires including strong and electromagnetic isospin-break...

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Published inSciPost physics proceedings no. 16; p. 031
Main Authors Maltman, Kim, Pawley, Christopher James, Lewis, Randy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published SciPost 15.07.2025
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ISSN2666-4003
2666-4003
DOI10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.16.031

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Summary:First-principles lattice determinations of the Standard Model expectation for the leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon have become sufficiently precise that further improvement requires including strong and electromagnetic isospin-breaking effects. We provide a continuum estimate of the strong isospin-breaking contribution, a_\mu^{SIB} a μ S I B , using SU(3) S U ( 3 ) chiral perturbation theory. The result is shown to be dominated by resonance-region contributions encoded in a single low-energy constant whose value is known from flavor-breaking hadronic \tau τ decay sum rules. Implications of the form of the result for lattice determinations of a_\mu^{SIB} a μ S I B are also discussed.
ISSN:2666-4003
2666-4003
DOI:10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.16.031