Dr Saskia Charity, Tenure Track Fellow in the Department of Physics presented the recent results from the muon g-2 experiment at the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) conference in Marseille.
The EPS-HEP conference is a major international conference that brings together physicists from around the world to discuss recent advances in high-energy physics. This year, approximately 800 participants attended to discover the latest developments in high energy physics and its related fields.
In her presentation, Dr Charity detailed the Muon g-2 results published in June 2025, which were the third and final measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly.
The result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with the experiment’s previous published results from 2021 and 2023, but with a much better precision of 127 parts-per-billion, surpassing the original experimental design goal of 140 parts-per-billion.
Dr Charity said “The final g-2 result was the product of over a decade of work by 200 incredible scientists that I am lucky to have been part of since my PhD. Seeing the dedication and hard work put into making such a precise measurement - equivalent to measuring the length of a football pitch to the width of a human hair - has been impressive, inspiring and great fun. It was a huge honour to be given the opportunity to present on behalf of the collaboration at EPS this year. The conference was fantastic, and the details of the work were presented by other members of the g-2 team at Liverpool, who had leading roles in the analysis of the g-2 data to obtain this brilliant result.”
Other members of the University of Liverpool Particle Physics group contributed to the programme, including Professor Graziano Venanzoni, Leverhulme International Professor of Physics and spokesperson for the Muon g-2 experiment and early career researchers Drs Estifa’a Zaid, Lorenzo Cotrozzi, Elia Bottalico, Jeremy Paltrinieri, along with PhD candidates Pau Petit Rosas and Daniel Jones.
You can watch Dr Charity’s plenary talk via this webcast.
She will also be presenting at the British Science Festival taking place in Liverpool. Book your place at her talk ‘Universal secrets: Unpacking particle physics’ where she will be joined by world leading particle physicists for a panel discussion about the world-defining experiments Liverpool is involved in at CERN and Fermilab.
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