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Hadronic vacuum polarization of the muon on 2+1+1-flavor HISQ ensembles: an update.
We give an update on the status of the Fermilab Lattice-HPQCD-MILC calculation of the con- tribution to the muon’s anomolous magnetic moment from the light-quark, connected hadronic vacuum polarization. We present preliminary, blinded results in the intermediate window for this contribution a^ll_{\mu W}. The calculation is performed on Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 highly-improved staggered quark (HISQ) ensembles from the MILC collaboration with physical pion mass at four lattice spacings between 0.15 fm and 0.06 fm. We also present preliminary results for a study of the two- pion contributions to the vector-current correlation function performed on the 0.15 fm ensemble contribution, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 . The calculation is performed on the 0.15 fm ensemble where we see a factor of four improvement over traditional noise reduction techniques.
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10340521
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The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2021)
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396
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526
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