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Title: The New Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab: Current Status and Prospects

Speaker: Peter Winter, Argonne National Laboratory
 

Abstract: The new E989 Muon g-2 experiment will measure the muon's anomalous magnetic moment, g-2, with at least four-fold improved precision compared to the former result from the Brookhaven National Laboratory E821 experiment. In order to achieve this new level of precision, many upgrades to the existing experiment are performed. The current status of the ongoing hardware upgrades will be presented. A major milestone was achieved a year ago with ramping the reassembled magnet to full field. Since then the magnet has been successfully shimmed in order to drastically reduce the field inhomogeneity. Final results of this 10 months long shimming process will be presented as well as the next steps towards data taking in 2017.

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP