The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jegerlehner, Friedrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 226
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

It seems to be a strange enterprise to attempt write a physics book about a single number. It was not my idea to do so, but why not. In mathematics, maybe, one would write a book about ?. Certainly, the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment is a very special number and today re?ects almost the full spect...