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Limit on the electric charge-nonconserving $\mu^+ \to invisible$ decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The first limit on the branching ratio of the electric charge-nonconserving invisible muon decay Br(μ+invisible)<5.2×103Br(\mu^+ \to invisible) < 5.2 \times 10^{-3} is obtained from the recently reported results on new determination of the Fermi constant from muon decays. The results of a feasibility study of a new proposed experiment for a sensitive search for this decay mode at the level of a few parts in 10^{11} are presented. Constrains on the τinvisible\tau \to invisible decay rate are discussed. These leptonic charge-nonconserving processes may hold in four-dimensional world in models with infinite extra dimensions, thus making their searches complementary to collider experiments probing new physics.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3492,
  title  = {Limit on the electric charge-nonconserving $\mu^+ \to invisible$ decay},
  author = {S. N. Gninenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3492},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 2 Figure, to appear in PRD