Two-loop electroweak corrections to the muon g - 2: a new class of hadronic contributions

We discuss, within the framework of the Standard Model, the calculation of the two-loop electroweak contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon involving triangle fermionic loops of leptons and quarks. Because of the large ratios of masses involved, these contributions are rather large. The result we obtain differs from a previous estimate reported in the literature. The discrepancy originates in the cancellation of anomalies in SU(3)c × SU(2)L × U(1)y, a cancellation that requires the consideration of both leptons and quarks within each generation and that had been previously overlooked.