Coherent muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Transition rates for coherent muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms, mu+N --> e+N, are computed for various types of muon number violating interactions. Attention is paid to relativistic atomic effects, Coulomb distortion, finite nuclear size, and nucleon distributions. Discrepancies with previously published results are pointed out and explained. Results are presented for several elements of current and future experimental interest.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9801218,
title = {Coherent muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms},
author = {Andrzej Czarnecki and William J. Marciano and Kirill Melnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9801218},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, latex. Talk given at Workshop on Physics at the First Muon Collider and at the Front End of a Muon Collider, Fermilab, November 6--9, 1997