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Compact storage ring to search for the muon electric dipole moment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-06-25 v3

Abstract

We present the concept of a compact storage ring of less than 0.5 m orbit radius to search for the electric dipole moment of the muon (dμd_\mu) by adapting the "frozen spin" method. At existing muon facilities a statistics limited sensitivity of dμ5×1023\ecmd_\mu \sim 5 \times 10^{-23} \ecm can be achieved within one year of data taking. Reaching this precision would demonstrate the viability of this novel technique to directly search for charged particle EDMs and already test a number of Standard Model extensions. At a future, high-power muon facility a statistical reach of dμ5×1025\ecmd_\mu \sim 5 \times 10^{-25} \ecm seems realistic with this setup.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0606034,
  title  = {Compact storage ring to search for the muon electric dipole moment},
  author = {A. Adelmann and K. Kirch and C. J. G. Onderwater and T. Schietinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0606034},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

improved for submission; minor modifications