Negative Muon Count for the FNAL Muon g-2 Experiment

Abstract

The primary goal of the FNAL Muon g-2 Experiment, located in Batavia, IL, USA, is to measure the anomalous magnetic dipole moment, aμ = (g-2)/2, of a muon to a precision of 0.14 ppm. Initial results from the experiment confirm a discrepancy between the experimental value of the muon anomaly compared with the theoretical value first discovered by the Brookhaven Muon g-2 Experiment in 2001. This discrepancy hints at new physics. However, running the experiment with negative muons is essential in order to verify the experimental value of the muon anomaly. As neither experiments nor simulation studies pertaining to the muon anomaly have been performed with negative muons, the goal of this work is to estimate the rates of negative muons arriving at the FNAL Muon g-2 experiment so that scientists can estimate the time required to run the experiment with negative muons. In order to do this, we performed several simulations of the Muon Campus, which delivers muons to the FNAL Muon g-2 Experiment, using the G4Beamline v. 3.06 at the National Energy Research Computing Center. We performed separate simulations for different sections of the muon campus, and simulations were repeated twice, once for negative muons and once for positive muons. An initial 109 protons were shot on target for both the negative and positive muon simulations. We found that the rate of negative muons arriving at the experiment was 0.549 times the rate of positive muons arriving at the experiment.

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