Improved ${\alpha }^4$ Term of the Electron Anomalous Magnetic Moment

Abstract

We report a new value of electron $g-2$, or $a_e$, from 891 Feynman diagrams of order ${\alpha }^4$. The FORTRAN codes of 373 diagrams containing closed electron loops have been verified by at least two independent formulations. For the remaining 518 diagrams, which have no closed lepton loop, verification by a second formulation is not yet attempted because of the enormous amount of additional work required. However, these integrals have structures that allow extensive cross-checking as well as detailed comparison with lower-order diagrams through the renormalization procedure. No algebraic error has been uncovered for them. The numerical evaluation of the entire ${\alpha }^4$ term by the integration routine VEGAS gives $-1.7283(35)(\alpha /\pi {)}^4$, where the uncertainty is obtained by careful examination of error estimates by VEGAS. This leads to $a_e=1159652175.86(0.10)(0.26)(8.48)\times 10^{-12}$, where the uncertainties come from the ${\alpha }^4$ term, the estimated uncertainty of ${\alpha }^5$ term, and the inverse fine structure constant, ${\alpha }^{-1}=137.0360003(10)$, measured by atom interferometry combined with a frequency comb technique, respectively. The inverse fine structure constant ${\alpha }^{-1}(a_e)$ derived from the theory and the Seattle measurement of $a_e$ is $137.03599883(51)$.

64 pages and 10 figures. Eq.(16) is corrected. Comments are added after Eq.(40)

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