Status of Leading-Order Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Dispersion Calculation

Abstract

The leading-order hadronic contribution to the muon magnetic anomaly a_{\mu} = (g_{\mu} - 2)/2, calculated using a dispersion integral of e+e- annihilation data and tau decay data, is briefly reviewed. This contribution has the largest uncertainty to the predicted value of a_{\mu}, which differs from the experimental value by ~3.6 (2.4) standard deviations for the e+e- (tau) based analysis. New results since the last workshop and main open issues on the subject are discussed.

Comments: Tau2012 workshop proceedings, 5 pages, 4 figures