Muon g-2 Experiment and the Hunt for Dark Matter's Hidden Signals

More than 100 years ago, humanity didn't even know that electrons existed. People were curious about the unexplained phenomenon: the static in our hair, drifting compass needle, lightning in the sky. Then scientists uncovered the electron, opening a window into the invisible world with a new eyes called detectors. At the moment, science ignited the first revolution. Every one of us carries the legacy of the revolution in our pockets, our smartphone. Now, once again, we stand before another unseen world one beyond our understanding today. We call it dark matter. Dark matter has mass, so we know it's out there from its gravitational effect that shape the universe.

However, we have never detected it directly, so far. Globally, many different efforts are exploring this hidden world. Among them, one pioneering approach focuses on the muon. Muon is one of the fundamental elementary particles discovered after the electron and, with a long history, it has become one of the particles we know best. At Fermilab, the Muon g-2 experiment measures the muon's anomalous magnetic moment, revealing how the muon's spin behaves inside a magnetic field, and we have reached the highest precision ever achieved in the world. With this world record precision, I'm now using this experiment to search for the entirely new thing, searching for dark matter

that may preferentially interact with the muon. If such dark matter exist, it could induce a subtle oscillations in a muon's motion. It's a very, very faint signal that's incredibly difficult to detect. It'll be like trying to hear a whisper in the middle of a storm. And my research is the first to search for that whisper. Within the next year, I will open a big chunk of data. And the scan, the unexplored the dark matter mass ranges at eight orders of magnitude where dark matter may hide. And each data point is a chance to listen for the whisper from the cosmos.

We once turned on the light and revealed the first invisible particle. Now we seek the next hidden world. Discovering dark matter will push our world into a new era. It will not only change the physics, but also it will reshape how we understand the universe. And with this step, it could spark technological revolution beyond our imagination, affecting how we live and how we connect.