Feasibility study of True Muonium discovery with CERN-SPS H4 positron beam
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2024-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
True muonium () is one of the heaviest and smallest electromagnetic bound states not containing hadrons, and has never been observed so far. In this work it is shown that the spin-1 TM state (ortho-TM) can be observed at a discovery level of significance in three months at the CERN SPS North-Area H4A beam line, using 43.7 GeV secondary positrons. In this way, by impinging the positrons on multiple thin low-Z targets, ortho-TM, which decays predominantly to , can be produced from interactions on resonance ().
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.11342,
title = {Feasibility study of True Muonium discovery with CERN-SPS H4 positron beam},
author = {Ruben Gargiulo and Elisa Di Meco and Stefano Palmisano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11342},
year = {2024}
}