Muon magnetic anomaly: experimental status and prospects

The past five years have brought significant new results on the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_{\mu }=(g_{\mu }-2)\mathrm{/}2$, and on the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution dominating the uncertainty $\mathrm{\Delta }{a}_{\mu }$. Serious tension has emerged between the experimental and standard model(SM) values for $a_{\mu }$, as well as between the SM and the first precise lattice QCD values. We review the current experimental and theoretical status of $a_{\mu }$, along with the prospects for new results,focusing on MUonE,a new experiment at CERN, aiming to evaluate the leading order contribution to a(HVP) in a direct measurement of muonic Bhabha scattering.