any comments on this?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Muons continue to defy Standard Model (http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/1/3)


"The recent g-2 result strengthens the case for new physics effects, with supersymmetry a leading candidate, but it is by no means definitive," says William Marciano, a theorist at Brookhaven. "Continued scrutiny of theory and further running of the experiment are imperative."

[suyver]

It's still not at 3\sigma...

Nevertheless, it's quite interesting and exciting.

[mathman]

I've been watching these developments since the earlier Brookhaven announcement. What I've seen so far is that the calculation of this quantity is still in a very unsettled state. Depending on whose doing it, the results can be anywhere from a fraction to several standard deviations off from the experiment. Until the theoreticians can come to some sort of agreement, the jury is still out.