MRI Consortium: Development of Instrumentation to Measure the Spin Precession Frequency in the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment

这项授予华盛顿大学和康奈尔大学的合作奖项资助了一种量热计探测器的开发，该探测器将用于测量介子的反常磁矩。由于粒子物理标准模型最近的测量和理论预测之间的差异，这个量是基本感兴趣的。测量介子的磁矩的精度将大大提高。如果这一差异得到证实，它将意味着存在新的亚原子粒子，到目前为止还没有被发现，并将从根本上重塑我们对周围世界的理解。

This collaborative award to the University of Washington and Cornell University funds the development of a calorimeter detector that would be used to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. This quantity is of fundamental interest because of discrepancies between a recent measurement and theoretical predictions of the standard model of particle physics. The magnetic moment of the muon will be measured with greatly increased precision. If the discrepancy is confirmed, it would imply the existence of new subatomic particles, so far undetected, and would fundamentally reshape our understanding of the world around us.