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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 (μ+μ\mu^+\mu^-) 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 e+ee^+e^-, can be produced from e+eTMe^+e^- \to TM interactions on resonance (s2mμ\sqrt{s} \sim 2m_{\mu}).

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@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}
}