Colloquia

Since the experiments of Stern and Gerlach, magnetic moments of "elementary" particles have been important in our quest to understand subatomic physics. A brief review of the history and foundations of this field will be given as an introduction to the muon g-2 experiment at the Brookhaven AGS. This experiment, E821, has recently reported a new result with a relative accuracy of 1.3 ppm, which is larger than the theoretical (Standard Model) value by 2.6 standard deviations. The physics context of this measurement, the experiment, and the analysis leading to this new result will be presented.