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A new measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu} \equiv (g-2)/2$, will be performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with data taking beginning in 2017. The most recent measurement, performed at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-16 W. Gohn

Charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) is expected in a diverse set of new physics scenarios. The current generation of experiments probe CLFV in the muon sector in three complementary channels: $\mu^-N \rightarrow e^- N$ (Mu2e, COMET),…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-28 Sophie Middleton

The Mu2e experiment will search for a Standard Model violating rate of neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the presence of an aluminum nucleus. Observation of this charged lepton flavor violating process would be an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-28 Michael Thomas Hedges

The upcoming Fermilab E989 experiment will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_{\mu}$ . This measurement is motivated by the previous measurement performed in 2001 by the BNL E821 experiment that reported a 3-4 standard deviation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Antoine Chapelain

An integrated program is described, starting with muon experiments in the Booster era, continuing with a 2 MW target station, a 4 GeV Neutrino Factory and a 3 TeV Muon Collider, all driven by Project X. This idea provides an integrated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Milorad Popovic

A staged approach towards muon based facilities for Intensity and Energy Frontier science, building upon existing and proposed facilities at Fermilab, is presented. At each stage, a facility exploring new physics also provides an R&D…

The Mu2e experiment aims to test Charge Lepton Flavour Violation to an unprecedented level, enhancing the current sensitivity by four orders of magnitude for the neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons. A series of graded solenoids…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Giovannella

The ALICE experiment is dedicated to the study of the quark gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) is under consideration by the ALICE experiment to be part of its program of detectors upgrade…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antonio Uras

Fermilab will continue to maintain its pre-eminent position in the world of High Energy Physics, with a unique opportunity to make unprecedented studies of the top quark and major discoveries, until the Large Hadron collider (LHC) at CERN…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Pushpalatha C. Bhat , William J. Spalding

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of parameters of the neutrino mixing matrix. The performance…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-22 Daniel M. Kaplan

The E989 Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab aims to measure the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_\mu$, to an unprecedented precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb), representing a four-fold improvement over the current best measurement, achieved at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-15 A. T. Fienberg

With the planned turn-on of the PIP-II 800 MeV superconducting proton linac, Fermilab will potentially become the world's best laboratory at which to carry out fundamental muon measurements, sensitive searches for symmetry violation, and…

A new experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon with a precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb). This measurement is motivated by the results of the Brookhaven E821 experiment that were first released…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-02 Frederick Gray

The MUonE experiment has been proposed to measure the differential cross section of $\mu e$ elastic scattering, by colliding the 160 GeV muons of the CERN M2 beam with atomic electrons of thin target plates. From a very precise measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-26 Giovanni Abbiendi

After a five year upgrade period, the CDF detector located at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider is back in operation taking high quality data with all subsystems functional. We report on the status of the CDF experiment in Run II and discuss…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 M. Paulini

The Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab continues operation as the world's highest energy particle accelerator by delivering luminosity at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. We review recent performance and plans for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-20 Ronald S. Moore

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is constructing a superconducting 1.3 GHz cryomodule test facility located at the New Muon Lab building. The facility will be used for testing and validating cryomodule designs as well as support…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 A. Martinez , A. L. Klebaner , J. C. Theilacker , B. D. DeGraff , J. Leibfritz

The muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_\mu = (g-2)/2$, is a low-energy observable which can be both measured and computed with very high precision, making it an excellent test of the Standard Model (SM) and a sensitive probe of new physics.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-20 Paolo Girotti

The Muon g-2 Experiment plans to use the Fermilab Recycler Ring for forming the proton bunches that hit its production target. The proposed scheme uses one RF system, 80 kV of 2.5 MHz RF. In order to avoid bunch rotations in a mismatched…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 D. Stratakis , M. Convery , J. P. Morgan , D. Still , M. J. Syphers , V. Tishchenko

We describe the design, construction and performance of the upgraded DO muon system for Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Significant improvements have been made to the major subsystems of the DO muon detector: trigger scintillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 The D0 Muon Group , V. M. Abazov