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The Mysterious Muon: The Electron's Heavy Sibling with Aida El Khadra

Speaker: Aida El Khadra, Univ of Illinois More than eighty years after the muon was first discovered, it is still a source of mystery. Experiments are now underway that use muons as a window to search for new particles or forces, a central goal of the high energy physics community. One of these experiments, the muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) uses Fermilab's powerful accelerators to explore the interactions of short-lived muons, which might be described as tiny bar magnets, with a strong magnetic field in "empty" space. Scientists know that even in a vacuum, space is never empty. Instead, it is filled with an invisible sea of virtual particles, one of which is the muon, that in accordance with the laws of quantum physics, pop in and out of existence for incredibly short moments of time. After a tour of the muon's history, I will discuss the ongoing interplay that is essential for unlocking the discovery potential of this mysterious particle.