Background Suppression for $\mu\to e\gamma$ with Polarized Muons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-06 v1
Abstract
A search for the lepton-flavor violating decay using polarized muons is revisited in terms of suppression of the serious background arising from an accidental coincidence between a in the normal muon decay and a high energy photon in the radiative muon decay, . It is found that a high energy photon in decay is preferentially emitted parallel to the muon spin direction, similarly to in the normal muon decay. The selective measurements of either s or photons moving antiparallel to the muon spin direction would suppress the accidental background for with right-handed and left-handed s respectively.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9609307,
title = {Background Suppression for $\mu\to e\gamma$ with Polarized Muons},
author = {Yoshitaka Kuno and Akihiro Maki and Yasuhiro Okada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9609307},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures, also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.kek.jp/kek/preprints/TH/TH-493