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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 μ+e+γ\mu^{+}\rightarrow e^{+}\gamma decay using polarized muons is revisited in terms of suppression of the serious background arising from an accidental coincidence between a e+e^{+} in the normal muon decay and a high energy photon in the radiative muon decay, μ+e+ννγ\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} \nu \overline{\nu} \gamma. It is found that a high energy photon in μ+e+ννγ\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} \nu \overline{\nu} \gamma decay is preferentially emitted parallel to the muon spin direction, similarly to e+e^{+} in the normal muon decay. The selective measurements of either e+e^{+}s or photons moving antiparallel to the muon spin direction would suppress the accidental background for μ+e+γ\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} \gamma with right-handed and left-handed e+e^{+}s respectively.

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@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}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures, also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.kek.jp/kek/preprints/TH/TH-493

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