Hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon $g-2$ with 2+1 flavor lattice QCD on a larger than (10 fm${)}^4$ lattice at the physical point

Abstract

We study systematic uncertainties in the lattice QCD computation of hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon $g-2$. We investigate three systematic effects; finite volume (FV) effect, cutoff effect, and integration scheme dependence. We evaluate the FV effect at the physical pion mass on two different volumes of (5.4 fm${)}^4$ and (10.8 fm${)}^4$ using the PACS10 configurations at the same cutoff scale. For the cutoff effect, we compare two types of lattice vector operators, which are local and conserved (point-splitting) currents, by varying the cutoff scale on a larger than (10 fm${)}^4$ lattice at the physical point. For the integration scheme dependence, we compare the results between the coordinate- and momentum-space integration schemes at the physical point on a (10.8 fm${)}^4$ lattice. Our result for the HVP contribution to the muon $g-2$ is given by $a_{\mu }^{\mathrm{hvp}}=737(9){(}_{-18}^{+13})\times 10^{-10}$ in the continuum limit, where the first error is statistical and the second one is systematic.

Comments: 24 pages, 14 figures, version published in PRD