US scientists place strongest limit on muon's hidden electric signal

US scientists place strongest limit on muon's hidden electric signal

Can a particle hide a secret in the tiniest of wobbles? A new analysis hints at this possibility. Recently, physicists at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have used the Muon g-2 experiment to look for one of the most elusive properties of the muon—its electric dipole moment (EDM).  They did not find one, but the absence is itself a useful result. Using just 25 percent of the experiment’s data, the collaboration…