25 July 2007 to 1 August 2007
Karlsruhe University
Europe/Zurich timezone

The muon magnetic moment and supersymmetry

27 Jul 2007, 14:20
20m
Eiermann-Auditorium (Karlsruhe University)

Eiermann-Auditorium

Karlsruhe University

Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
Parallel Talk Flavor Physics Flavor Physics 1

Speaker

Dr Dominik Stockinger (University Glasgow)

Description

Very impressive recent developments have led to an unprecedented precision in the experimental value and the Standard Model prediction of the muon magnetic moment (g-2). A discrepancy of more than 3 sigma between SM and experiment has now been definitely established! This discrepancy constitutes a strong hint for supersymmetry at the weak scale, and it leads to significant bounds on the supersymmetry parameter space. In the talk the developments leading to the 3 sigma discrepancy are reviewed, and it is shown that this discrepancy can be easily explained by supersymmetry effects but not by virtually any other model of physics beyond the SM. Furthermore, it is shown that the bounds on supersymmetry parameters derived from (g-2) are complementary to information that can be obtained at the LHC.

Author

Dr Dominik Stockinger (University Glasgow)

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