Direct measurement of the proton magnetic moment

The proton magnetic moment in nuclear magnetons is measured to be μ(p)/μ(N) ≡ g/2 = 2.792?846 ± 0.000?007, a 2.5 parts per million uncertainty. The direct determination, using a single proton in a Penning trap, demonstrates the first method that should work as well with an antiproton (p) as with a proton (p). This opens the way to measuring the p magnetic moment (whose uncertainty has essentially not been reduced for 20 years) at least 10(3) times more precisely.     

Precise measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment

A precise measurement of the anomalous g value, a(mu) = (g-2)/2, for the positive muon has been made at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. The result a(mu+) = 11 659 202(14) (6) x 10(-10) (1.3 ppm) is in good agreement with previous measurements and has an error one third that of the combined previous data. The current theoretical value from the standard model is a(mu)(SM) = 11 659 159.6(6.7) x 10(-10) (0.57 ppm) and a(mu)(exp) - a(mu)(SM) = 43(16) x 10(-10) in which a(mu)(exp) is the world average experimental value.     

A new measurement of the magnetic moment of the neutron

The magnetic moment of the neutron has been measured with a factor of one hundred improvement in accuracy. In terms of the Bohr magneton and proton magnetic moment, respectively, the result is μ_n/μ_B= ?1.041 875 79 (26) × 10^?3, μ_n/μ_p = ?0.684 979 45 (17).     

New measurement of the electron magnetic moment and the fine structure constant

A measurement using a one-electron quantum cyclotron gives the electron magnetic moment in Bohr magnetons, g/2=1.001 159 652 180 73 (28) [0.28 ppt], with an uncertainty 2.7 and 15 times smaller than for previous measurements in 2006 and 1987. The electron is used as a magnetometer to allow line shape statistics to accumulate, and its spontaneous emission rate determines the correction for its interaction with a cylindrical trap cavity. The new measurement and QED theory determine the fine structure constant, with alpha{-1}=137.035 999 084 (51) [0.37 ppb], and an uncertainty 20 times smaller than for any independent determination of alpha.     

New measurement of the electron magnetic moment using a one-electron quantum cyclotron

A new measurement resolves cyclotron and spin levels for a single-electron quantum cyclotron to obtain an electron magnetic moment, given by g/2=1.001 159 652 180 85 (76) [0.76 ppt]. The uncertainty is nearly 6 times lower than in the past, and g is shifted downward by 1.7 standard deviations. The new g, with a quantum electrodynamics (QED) calculation, determines the fine structure constant with a 0.7 ppb uncertainty--10 times smaller than for atom-recoil determinations. Remarkably, this 100 mK measurement probes for internal electron structure at 130 GeV.     

First measurement of the nuclear magnetic moment of 254Es

Angular distributions of α particles and γ rays emitted by ^253,254Es, ²⁵⁵Fm, and ²⁵⁰Bk nuclei were studied using the low-temperature nuclear orientation method. Information on the hyperfine interactions of these actinide impurities in an iron host lattice is derived from experimental data and the value of magnetic moment of ²⁵⁴Es nucleus is determined.     

350-fold improved measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment using a multi-trap method

We summarize our recent 1.5 parts per billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment using the multi Penning-trap system of the BASE collaboration. The result was achieved by combining the detection of individual spin-transitions of a single antiproton with a novel two-particle spectroscopy technique, which dramatically improved the data sampling rate. This measurement contributes to improve the test of the fundamental charge, parity, time reversal (CPT) invariance in the baryon sector by a factor of 350 compared to our last measurement, and by a factor of 3000 compared to the best competing measurement. We review the measurement technique and discuss the improved limits on CPT-violating physics imposed by this measurement.     

A new measurement of the Σ+ magnetic moment

A new measurement of the Σ⁺ magnetic moment is reported. The measurement stems from 12 000 events of the reaction K^?p→Σ⁺π^? produced at beam momenta around 460 MeV/c in HYBUC, the hydrogen bubble chamber with an 11.5 T magnetic field. These events represent about 15% of the final statistics. The results from opposite field directions are in close agreement and yield an average value of 2.95 ± 0.31 nuclear magnetons for the total Σ⁺ magnetic moment.     

High-accuracy measurement of the magnetic moment anomaly of the electron bound in hydrogenlike carbon

We present a new experimental value for the magnetic moment of the electron bound in hydrogenlike carbon (12C5+): g(exp) = 2.001 041 596 (5). This is the most precise determination of an atomic g(J) factor so far. The experiment was carried out on a single 12C5+ ion stored in a Penning trap. The high accuracy was made possible by spatially separating the induction of spin flips and the analysis of the spin direction. The current theoretical value amounts to g(th) = 2.001 041 591 (7). Together experiment and theory test the bound-state QED contributions to the g(J) factor of a bound electron to a precision of 1%.     

Direct measurement of the nuclear magnetic dipole moment of Ho165 with the atomic beam magnetic resonance method

With an atomic beam magnetic resonance apparatus four rf transitions between different Zeeman levels of the⁴ I _15/2 ground state of Ho¹⁶⁵ have been measured in an external magnetic field of about 3000 Gauss. The interaction between the nuclear magnetic dipole moment and the external field could be deduced from these measurements. Because the magnetic field was measured by calibration transitions in K³⁹, Rb⁸⁵ and Rb⁸⁷, the following value could be determined for the nuclear magnetic dipole moment: μ _I (Ho¹⁶⁵)=4.094(44) μ _n (uncorrected for diamagnetic shielding). Thegj-factor of the ground state of Ho¹⁶⁵ was measured to begj(⁴ I _15/2, Ho¹⁶⁵)=1.1951445(40).     

Status of the experiment on the measurement of the neutrino magnetic moment with the spectrometer GEMMA

The investigation of the background structure of the spectrometer GEMMA was carried out in a low-background laboratory in ITEP. GEMMA is destined for measurement of the neutrino magnetic moment near the core of a nuclear power plant (NPP) reactor. The results of the investigation in ITEP and measurement of the background in the experimental hall at the Kalininskaya NPP proved that GEMMA is ready for the start of the experiment at the reactor. Now the preparation of the experimental hall for the measurement is completed and an assembling of the setup is in progress.     

Muon anomalous magnetic moment in the supersymmetric economical 3-3-1 model

We investigate the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the context of a supersymmetric version of the economical 3-3-1 model. We compute the 1-loop contribution of superpartner particles. We show that the contribution of superparticle loops become significant when tanγ is large. We investigate the cases of both small and large values of tanγ. We find the region of the parameter space where the slepton masses of a few hundred GeV are favored by the muon g–2 for small tanγ (tanγ ≈ 5). Numerical estimation gives the mass of supersymmetric particles, the mass of gauginos m _G ≈ 700 GeV, and the light slepton mass \(m_{\tilde L} \) of the order of O (100) GeV. When tanγ is large (tanγ ≈ 60), the charged slepton mass \(m_{\tilde L} \) and the gaugino mass m _G are O(1) TeV, while the sneutrino mass ≈450 GeV is in the reach of the LHC.