Blind analysis results of the TWIST experiment
Abstract
The TRIUMF Weak Interaction Symmetry Test (TWIST) experiment was designed to test the standard model at high precision in the purely leptonic decay of polarized muons. A general four-fermion interaction model is used to describe the muon decay. TWIST measures three of the four muon decay parameters of this model, , and , from the shape of the momentum-angle spectrum. The results of this model independent approach are compared to the standard model predictions and used to constrain new physics. Our collaboration has finalized the blind analysis of the final experimental data taken in 2006 and 2007. This analysis mostly reached our goal of a precision of an order of magnitude improvement over the pre-TWIST measurements.
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@article{arxiv.1006.1007,
title = {Blind analysis results of the TWIST experiment},
author = {A. Hillairet and R. Bayes and J. F. Bueno and Y. I. Davydov and P. Depommier and W. Faszer and M. C. Fujiwara and C. A. Gagliardi and A. Gaponenko and A. Grossheim and D. R. Gill and P. Gumplinger and M. D. Hasinoff and R. S. Henderson and J. Hu and D. D. Koetke and R. P. MacDonald and G. M. Marshall and E. W. Mathie and R. E. Mischke and K. Olchanski and A. Olin and R. Openshaw and J. -M. Poutissou and R. Poutissou and V. Selivanov and G. Sheffer and B. Shin and T. D. S. Stanislaus and R. Tacik and R. E. Tribble},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1007},
year = {2010}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for the Lake Louise Winter Institute 2010