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Measurement of the negative muon anomalous magnetic moment to 0.7 ppm

G W Bennett1, B Bousquet, H N Brown

  • 1Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|June 1, 2004
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