Research Proposal for an Experiment to Search for the Decay {\mu} -> eee
Instrumentation and Detectors
2013-01-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We propose an experiment (Mu3e) to search for the lepton flavour violating decay mu+ -> e+e-e+. We aim for an ultimate sensitivity of one in 10^16 mu-decays, four orders of magnitude better than previous searches. This sensitivity is made possible by exploiting modern silicon pixel detectors providing high spatial resolution and hodoscopes using scintillating fibres and tiles providing precise timing information at high particle rates.
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@article{arxiv.1301.6113,
title = {Research Proposal for an Experiment to Search for the Decay {\mu} -> eee},
author = {A. Blondel and A. Bravar and M. Pohl and S. Bachmann and N. Berger and M. Kiehn and A. Schöning and D. Wiedner and B. Windelband and P. Eckert and H. -C. Schultz-Coulon and W. Shen and P. Fischer and I. Perić and M. Hildebrandt and P. -R. Kettle and A. Papa and S. Ritt and A. Stoykov and G. Dissertori and C. Grab and R. Wallny and R. Gredig and P. Robmann and U. Straumann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6113},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Research proposal submitted to the Paul Scherrer Institute Research Committee for Particle Physics at the Ring Cyclotron, 104 pages