Lattice Calculation of the Connected Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment

Understand

The anomalous magnetic moment of muon, $g-2$, is a very precisely measured quantity.

• However, the current measurement disagrees with standard model by about 3 standard deviations.
• Hadronic vacuum polarization and hadronic light by light are the two types of processes that contribute most to the theoretical uncertainty.
• I will describe how lattice methods are well-suited to provide a first-principle's result for the hadronic light by light contribution, the various numerical strategies that are presently being used to evaluate it, our current results and the important remaining challenges which must be overcome.