Press Conference: First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab

This press conference was held on April 7, 2021, shortly after a scientific seminar announcing the first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. These long-awaited results showed fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists’ best theory, the Standard Model of particle physics. The speakers are: Chris Polly (Fermilab, Muon g-2 co-spokesperson), Graziano Venanzoni (INFN, Muon g-2 co-spokesperson), and Aida El-Khadra (UIUC, co-chair of the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative).
Press release:
news.fnal.gov/2021/04/first-r...
Scientific paper:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Muon g-2 website:
muon-g-2.fnal.gov/
Fermilab website:
www.fnal.gov/
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[@nicosmind3]

4:54 for the start :)

[@sobertillnoon]

I was immediately blown away to find out it was said "g minus two". Like, okay. I'm on board.

[@ancients6498]

Yeah I was reading it as "g two" for like the first 30m of reading about it that took me way too long 😭

[@sobertillnoon]

@@ancients6498 G-2 is a model of pen made by Pilot. It is my favorite. I pronounce the minus now.

[@irrationalpie3143]

Congratulations to the team. Looking forward to more data, final 5-sigma confirmation and more exciting physics proposals!

[@antonleimbach648]

Thank you Aida, Graziano, and Chris! Your answers to the questions really helped those of us who do not have a physics background. What an exciting time we live in!

[@samhuggons2879]

Great work guys, I am super excited, you made my day :)

[@StevenGiron]

Congratulations, Chris! I feel good about the agreement with BNL. Having an intimate knowledge of the BNL slow-control system, particular the high-voltage system on the calorimeters, I can breathe a little easier with the thought that "it wasn't a systematic error in the HV/calorimeters" behind the deviation from the Standard Model!

[@StevenGiron]

p.s. Any contribution from a muon EDM is proportional to the square of the difference of the squares of the SM value and the experimental value.... I should get out my calculator... No reason to announce this ... other than my PhD thesis was related to the muon EDM measurement at BNL... but, maybe it's a new particle. :-P

[@xmedian003x9]

Great as always

[@Villaboy78]

So. Could the result discrepancy and the fact we are talking insane magnetic fields, indicate some Axion / quark fluctuation in the vacuum, pointing us at the Strong CP problem as well ?

[@davidpierce9065]

Thank you.

[@vijaypatil9517]

Great Work guys... Best Wishes from India

[@PeepingUkulele]

🧡 so exciting.

[@fcrm4039]

Yeah

[@halalaheidari5469]

Could you please hold weekly or monthly discussions on Clubhouse?

[@alvin6159]

Nice. Thank u vewy mtas...

[@zekunjiang1283]

Very very exciting.

[@ms.julia-miguelr.bernardes9717]

Congratulations! May I please know what the "virtual particles" are? Sorry I missed the live stream and failed to ask the question there.

[@ms.julia-miguelr.bernardes9717]

Oh la la. Just from the reading list of amazing works available here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry ,I can see that my question was pedestrian at best. The leg-work is for me to try to do!!! Congratulations to all who have, in the past and in the present, made this possible, and who are reaching out to communicate with the public. My best, optimistic wishes for these perfectionist physicists who will continue the work done so far!

[@allantaylor420]

This is great news!

[@Markoul11]

Polarization of the quantum vacuum adds spin angular momentum to the muon thus increases its g factor thus its intrinsic spin magnetic moment.

[@naimulhaq9626]

The white gap could be the result of interaction of the magnetic field force with gravitational field.

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

😃🎸🎶🎷👋👋👋🤗 Well done Fermilab! 💃🙆

[@erggish]

Looking at the map and the travel the ring went through ( 11:40 ) , does anyone know why didn't they take a more straightforward route but did such a huge circle around the US?

[@ancients6498]

So, it'd be much much harder to try and drive it through populated areas. Them going through the water was probably due to that. It doesn't look like they stuck very close to the coastline though, so I'm not sure why that was.

[@MrMichaelFire]

Where is Dr. Don? Or is it because of PC we need to hear a lot of anonymous folks who aren't particularly good at explaining things to non-professionals....

[@houbingjiang2552]

Nice result, it provides strong evidence for the existence of new physics

[@WilliamFord972]

It certainly would be revolutionary!

[@jackieallen9325]

just here to leave a comment when this becomes viral. I am here to witness the 'proof' of the existing of other fundamental force(s).

[@tommyselbe1999]

Read me to sleep, not keep me up... Really enjoyed your time...

[@atanunath]

Proud and excited to be a part of the collaboration!

[@pranavkombe2201]

🌷

[@comediangj4955]

Damn, i never thought about relativity effecting decay rate!

[@newenglandbarbell4647]

what a time to be alive

[@SalesforceUSA]

very nice

[@digxx]

I mean the confirmation is great, but only 15% improvement in the error after 20years?!?

[@bryan3dguitar]

Why do many scientists keep giving us broom closet audio? Room reverb is still a mystery? Lapel or headset microphones too expensive?

[@rifatmasud]

Off topic but is it the album cover for Strokes 2001 masterpiece Is This It behind Mr. Kevin Pitts? If yes then dude you rock!!

[@fennewald5230]

It's a picture of subatomic particles in a bubble chamber. If you fill a container with liquid extremely close to, but below, its boiling point, incident rays of high-energy radiation from space will boil trails behind themselves as they whiz by. The strokes used an image from a bubble chamber for their cover, but the chambers themselves have been around since 1950s. As much as This is It is an amazing album, I'd assume that Kevin's poster is more related to the physics.

[@rifatmasud]

Didn’t know that. Either way, its really cool to see that thing on the wall. Thanks for the enlightenment dude!

[@amedeofilippi6336]

Maybe this result is a step forward the discovery of DM particles?

[@keesachterstevoren]

Its not 5s still

[@DalbyJoakim]

This assymmetry measurement is extremely important. It gives clue to the fundamentalism of elementary particles and waves. High time to look beyond that. Start by naming what is not fundamental quasi-. It is the brain hack we need to go beyond what we assumed perfectly true and find that previous truth as emergent of something much deeper and simpler. GR is emergent. A superfluid can reproduce its own quasi-GR in its excitations measured by each other. We should look at what are possible excitation geometries in ours. Like Thad Roberts.

[@harshvardhanwagare5663]

waiting for Dr. Don Lincoln sir to explain this hope the video comes soon :)

[@adam3141]

Gawd. Think of the relativistic calculations as it spins

[@user-oo1tj3lx6q]

Wait...what?! Muon is not elementary particle?? Is what I heard true??

[@spacetardigrade8277]

What did you hear?

[@Jonathan-yn8kx]

Holding out for five sigma...

[@ExStaticBass]

Just to put this outfit for others. The subtitles served as more of an inaccurate and confusing distraction than any kind of aid. It's a shame really considering the fascinating nature of the content. I wound up watching this video twice because of that.

[@gettingbettereveryday350]

Excellent video I propose that any new particle be called the dark cookie particle.

[@lancethrustworthy]

Your definition of excellence and mine are very very different. Lousy audio quality does not make for excellence.

[@WilliamFord972]

@@lancethrustworthy That’s 100% Zoom’s fault.

[@WilliamFord972]

What would Fermi Lab suggest is the best way to explain the findings of the Muon g-2 experiment in layman’s terms? It is easy for media and others far removed from the field physics to hop on the hype train and make painfully oversimplified and/or misleading statements.

[@antoniomanuel1855]

Genial good

[@thyandyr7369]

You guys still have buffalos spinning on the property?

[@victorianaztec555]

Argonne has the white deer that continues to roam on the property not buffalo 😂

[@thyandyr7369]

@@victorianaztec555 I'm sure it was buffalo/bison but it was many years ago.

[@fermilab]

Our bison herd is doing well, thanks for asking!

[@WilliamFord972]

@@fermilab Do you approximate them as spheres of point mass _m_ ?

[@coldblaze100]

History

[@channelwarhorse3367]

The Vis Visa, have not read that book. Or course it is above two, it decays to Wave side as energy is energy is.

[@channelwarhorse3367]

Time and space stretched, every force has an opposing reaction to entanglement, measurement is at instance to energy content to projection of wave to mass state.

[@channelwarhorse3367]

Like a black-hole event horizon we have a signal...reaction to decay the lever to immovable. Curve to light speed, what is light but mass.....

[@channelwarhorse3367]

Is it safe!!

[@channelwarhorse3367]

Flight by light is acceptable terms. Do you accept the Muon g-2 to firm our labs....projecting to control decay ....increase power.....pulse spin tot he DNA ...structure holding....is it safe,,,,increasing projection!! Is our DNA.

[@channelwarhorse3367]

Something is manifest to generate the particle field. Enough to stretch time and space that something is beyond if not immovable.

[@charliebray8415]

Seems like if you need a verification of an anomalous data point you wouldn't use the same equipment that found the original anomalous data point in the magnet. js.. Not that this isn't an incredible find just bases needing to be covered here..

[@hb-mek]

8:11 SUSY PARTICLES 😂😂😂😂 PARTICLES SUS 😂😂😂😂 PARTICLE VENTED 😂😂😂😂PLEASE GOD PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY 😂😂😂😂WAY TOO SUSSY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@devina8812]

SUSSY BAKA

[@TheYgds]

I am amazed almost as much by the science as I am by how much Dr. Polly sounds like Jeff Goldblum.

[@RS-mn6vc]

Only 7 comments... Including Mine ! WTF !!

[@vvksailor]

Raj....now 76

[@vvksailor]

R U from India?

[@RS-mn6vc]

@@vvksailor Yes, but at Princeton

[@vvksailor]

@@RS-mn6vc me 12th me hu...mera goal IISC me 4 years ka graduation karke Physics me Phd karna he...koi suggestion...? Tum 12th ke baad se hi princeton me ho?

[@RS-mn6vc]

@@vvksailor No. It took me years. Just did my masters from Princeton. No suggestions. Just stay focused and keep working on yourself dear. Things will go well.

[@excaliburjohndeere7657]

With the virtual particles hypothetical opponents to solve equations. It looks like to me we know how women are we know what men want. Money is the muon. As they say in chess checkmate

[@SalesforceUSA]

CONGRATULATIONS USA! Bring back Physics research back from CERN.

[@bob19611000]

Remove gravity as a force from the standard model, because its not, will solve the problem.

[@WilliamFord972]

That’s an arrogant, ignorant oversimplification.

[@robertodalmasso1244]

Graziano..are you a supporter of Torino FC, aren't you??

[@rljpdx]

coolio

[@perffection1141]

This is an AI in real life

[@zack_120]

Come on, more new particles? That will delay the eventual understanding of the Universe by another millennium which I will not see 😂

[@lancethrustworthy]

Somebody really dropped the ball here, audio-wise. What a pity. It could have been great. You couldn't standardize and have each speaker in the video wear a cheap clip on mic? You can get such mics for less than $2, with FREE SHIPPING on Ebay. Phooey. A camera and mic do not a competent videographer make! Sheesh. You should have begun your 'reshoot schedule' when you heard some of the segments in post production. Why didn't you?? Maybe I should go to Fermilab and start acting like a physicist.

[@shawnmulberry774]

Agreed. "Hundreds of collaborators" and probably billions of budget. Sounds like he placed the camera in a tin can so you can hear better lol

[@moomoodefloof]

You don’t waste money on cameras and mics for a press release. You use money to support the scientists, engineers, graduate students, administrative staff that contributed to the experiment. And the technology to make such a precise measurement. You know nothing of the work that went behind this result. And clearly the importance of this result went way over your head.

[@PeepingUkulele]

The subject matter was more important to me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@shawnmulberry774]

its not always about money. You can put some fabrics next to you, maybe a pile of labcoats, and they can be out of sight of camera and can help with sound immensely. Quite frankly if the work is that important than the little effort to improve the communication would be worth it. Also, some of us are hard of hearing and tinny sounds don't work well with hearing aides but as long as it was OK for you then why should you complain? Right

[@spacerider2227]

So hopefully we won’t be burning fossil fuels to take us to Mars 😁

[@spacerider2227]

@Jay Tee are you sure? we’ve seen alien technology fly around this earth caught on video by military aircraft without any signs of fossil propulsion something exists maybe this new discovery is the beginning of a new chapter of understanding how particles move in different ways but unless we get our head around this new discovery then it might puzzle our mind forever more, the human mind might not be capable of fully understanding how things work remember we are part of scale of IQ, are beings from a different planet a level above us? Anyway there’s an excellent interview with Bob Lazar who apparently back engineered an alien craft at Area 51, he mentioned something extraordinary something related to this where the propulsion of the vehicle used particles but they didn’t understand how it worked based on the knowledge of our science and physics at the time, they had an idea what it was doing but couldn’t understand how it was doing it and maybe something like this new discovery is part of that explanation, maybe? I have an open mind when it comes to these things why not

[@entropiauniverseflyovermob4181]

7 countries? Why only 7. Is that what the current political landscape has left you with. 7 countries out of the world. That is sad. I will have to look into that and fix it.

[@atanunath]

There's nothing political about it! It's a very small experiment, and 7 countries joined and funded it, others were not interested enough and didn't see the potential that the 7 countries saw! Graziano, the current spokesperson, an Italian, was going around to various places in Italy years ago trying to convince people to be a part of it! Especially, the people of BNL, had the dream and were trying hard to bring people aboard. By the way, 7 countries are official partners, but there are physicists from everywhere.. young scientists from various Asian, European, American, etc countries.