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Long-awaited muon physics experiment nears moment of truth – Nature.com
A result that has been 20 years in the making could reveal the existence of new particles, and upend fundamental physics.
The storage-ring magnet used for the g 2 experiment at Fermilab.Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab
After a two-decade wait that included a long struggle for funding and a move halfway across a continent, a rebooted experiment on the muon a particle similar to the electron but heavier and unstable is about to unveil its results. Physicists have high hopes that its latest measurement of the muons magnetism, scheduled to be released on 7 April, will uphold earlier findings that could lead to the discovery…
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