Post by Fermilab

Congratulations to the Muon g‑2 collaborations! 🏆 A tiny elementary particle called the muon has won a big prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Three generations of the Muon #gminus2 experiment — beginning at CERN , advancing at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and culminating at Fermilab — were honored with this award, recognizing decades of groundbreaking precision physics. The three generations of Muon g-2 experiments were designed to measure the magnetic moment of the muon with ever-increasing precision, exploring the quantum realm where particles briefly appear and vanish — and where even tiny deviations could point to entirely new laws of nature outside of the current Standard Model of Particle Physics. The latest and most precise measurement of the muon’s magnetic moment was announced by Fermilab in 2025. https://lnkd.in/gTtwHfdV #gminus2 #BreakthroughPrize #BrookhavenLab #Fermilab #CERN #muon #physics #particlephysics