Muon g-2 Phasor Clock: Anomalous Precession in 2D
Interactive 2D phasor-clock simulator: watch a momentum phasor and a spin phasor spin at slightly different rates, drag to set their initial phase offset, and read the resulting decay-positron 'wiggle' histogram that real g-2 storage-ring experiments measure.
This is a 2D phasor-diagram reading of the same storage-ring physics as the 3D version: instead of a ring viewed in space, two rotating arrows share one polar clock face — momentum turning at the cyclotron frequency ωc = qB/(γm), spin turning at ωs = ωc + ωa. Drag the clock face to set their initial phase offset φ0, then watch the spin phasor slip ahead of momentum at the rate set by the anomaly a = (g−2)/2. Underneath, a scrolling histogram reproduces the actual observable of a real g-2 experiment: the decay-positron count N(t) = N0·e−t/τ·(1 + A·cos(ωat + φ0)), an exponentially falling population modulated by the same anomalous frequency, fit by Fermilab and CERN to fix g-2 to ten decimal places.
Interactive 2D phasor-clock simulator: watch a momentum phasor and a spin phasor spin at slightly different rates, drag to set their initial phase offset, and read the resulting decay-positron 'wiggle' histogram that real g-2 storage-ring experiments measure.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install