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Improved search for two body muon decay ${\mu}^+{\rightarrow}e^+X_H$

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-04-08 v3 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Charged lepton flavor violating muon decay μ+e+XH{\mu}^+{\rightarrow}e^+X_H, where XHX_H is a massive neutral boson, was sought by searching for extra peaks in the muon decay μ+e+ννˉ{\mu}^+{\rightarrow}e^+{\nu}\bar{\nu} energy spectrum in the mXHm_{X_H} mass region 47.895.147.8-95.1 MeV/c2c^2. No signal was found and 90% confidence level upper limits were set on the branching ratio Γ(μ+e+XH)/Γ(μ+e+ννˉ){\Gamma}({\mu}^+{\rightarrow}e^+X_H)/{\Gamma}({\mu}^+{\rightarrow}e^+{\nu}\bar{\nu}) at the level of 10510^{-5} for this region.

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@article{arxiv.2002.09170,
  title  = {Improved search for two body muon decay ${\mu}^+{\rightarrow}e^+X_H$},
  author = {A. Aguilar-Arevalo and M. Aoki and M. Blecher and D. I. Britton and D. vom Bruch and D. A. Bryman and S. Chen and J. Comfort and S. Cuen-Rochin and L. Doria and P. Gumplinger and A. Hussein and Y. Igarashi and S. Ito and S. Kettell and L. Kurchaninov and L. S. Littenberg and C. Malbrunot and R. E. Mischke and T. Numao and D. Protopopescu and A. Sher and T. Sullivan and D. Vavilov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09170},
  year   = {2020}
}

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3 pages, 2 figures

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