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The muon anomalous magnetic moment with staggered fermions: is the lattice spacing small enough?

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arxiv 2204.12256 v2 pith:37MYKKK4 submitted 2022-04-26 hep-lat hep-ph

The muon anomalous magnetic moment with staggered fermions: is the lattice spacing small enough?

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We extend our previous work on the light-quark connected part, $a_\mu^{\rm HVP,lqc}$, of the leading order hadronic-vacuum-polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_\mu$, using staggered fermions, in several directions. We have collected more statistics on ensembles with lattice spacings of $0.06$, $0.09$ and $0.12$ fm, and we added two new ensembles, both with lattice spacing $0.15$ fm, but with different volumes. The increased statistics allow us to reduce statistical errors on $a_\mu^{\rm HVP,lqc}$ and related window quantities significantly. We also calculate the current-current correlator from which $a_\mu^{\rm HVP,lqc}$ is obtained to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in staggered chiral perturbation theory, so that we can correct lattice values for $a_\mu^{\rm HVP,lqc}$ to NNLO for finite-volume, pion-mass mistuning and taste-breaking effects. We discuss the applicability of NNLO chiral perturbation theory to $a_\mu^{\rm HVP,lqc}$ and to the window quantities, emphasizing that it provides a systematic EFT approach to $a_\mu^{\rm HVP,lqc}$, but not to short- or intermediate-distance window quantities. This makes it difficult to assess systematic errors on the standard intermediate-distance window quantity that is now widely considered in the literature. In view of this, we investigate a longer-distance window, for which EFT methods should be more reliable. Our most important conclusion is that, especially for staggered fermions, new high-statistics computations at lattice spacings smaller than $0.06$ fm are indispensable.

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