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Energy Integrating Ratio Analysis of Muon Spin Precession Frequency Data in Fermilab Muon g − 2 Experiment

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Abstract

The new Fermilab Muon g − 2 experiment is currently taking data with the aim of experimentally determining the muon anomalous magnetic moment, aμ , with a final precision of 140 ppb. The energy integrating method is a new reconstruction approach in which the total energy of the decay positrons deposited in the electromagnetic calorimeters is continuously recorded. This reconstruction method for the muon spin precession frequency (ωa ) analysis is less sensitive to systematic bias arising from effects like pile-up and gain compared to the traditional method which reconstructs individual positron events. Furthermore, we employ a ratio histogramming procedure which mitigates the need for incorporating slow effects in the fit function. Combining the energy integrating reconstruction with the ratio histogramming provides a robust alternative way of determining ωa . In this talk we present an overview and a status update on the energy integrating ratio analysis of the precession frequency for the Run 2 and 3 datasets.

Presenters

  • Ritwika Chakraborty

    University of Kentucky

Authors

  • Ritwika Chakraborty

    University of Kentucky