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A new experiment is being developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure the g-2 value of the muon to 0.35 ppm. A brief review is given of our knowledge of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, of the motivations for an improved measurement, and of the status of the experiment.
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Hughes, V.W. et al. (1991). The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon. In: Althoff, KH., Meyer, W. (eds) High Energy Spin Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86995-2_34
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