Universal extra dimensions and the muon magnetic moment

We analyze the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the context of universal extra dimensions. Our computation shows that the bound from electroweak data on the size of these dimensions allows only a small shift in the muon magnetic moment given by Kaluza–Klein modes of standard model fields. In the well-motivated case of two universal extra dimensions, additional contributions arising from physics at scales where the effective 6-dimensional standard model breaks down, given by dimension-ten operators, have a natural size comparable to the sensitivity of the muon (g−2) experiment at BNL.