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The MEG detector is designed to test Lepton Flavor Violation in the $\mu^+\rightarrow e^+\gamma$ decay down to a Branching Ratio of a few $10^{-13}$. The decay topology consists in the coincident emission of a monochromatic photon in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-13 P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , S. Dussoni , F. Gatti , M. Rossella , Y. Uchiyama , R. Valle

The design and tests of Timing Counter elements for the upgrade of the MEG experiment, MEG II,is presented. The detector is based on several small plates of scintillator with a Silicon PhotoMultipliers dual-side readout. The optimisation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , W. Ootani , Y. Uchiyama , M. Nishimura , S. Shirabe , P. W. Cattaneo , M. Rossella

The MEG II experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland will search for the lepton flavour violating muon decay, $\mu^+\to e^+\gamma$, with a sensitivity of $4\times10^{-14}$ improving the existing limit of an order of magnitude. In…

The MEG experiment is designed to search the Lepton Flavor Violating process $\mu \to e^+\gamma$ \cite{mori-1999,meg2007-baldini}. This search requires a high intensity muon beam stopping in a thin target with the maximum rate compatible…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Paolo Walter Cattaneo

MEG (Mu to Electron Gamma) is an experiment dedicated to search for the $\mu^+ \rightarrow e^+\gamma$ decay that is strongly suppressed in the Standard Model but predicted in several Super Symmetric extensions of it at an accessible rate.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-18 Paolo W. Cattaneo , Fabrizio Cei , Ryu Sawada , Matthias Schneebeli , Shuei Yamada

We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for the MEG II timing counter dedicated to timing measurement of positrons. The detector requires precise timing alignment between $\sim\,$500 scintillation counters. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-16 M. Nakao , G. Boca , P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , M. Nishimura , W. Ootani , M. Rossella , Y. Uchiyama , M. Usami , K. Yoshida

The MEG Experiment searches for a lepton flavour violating decay, $\mu^+\to\mathrm{e}^+\gamma $, with a branching-ratio sensitivity of $10^{-13}$ in order to explore the parameter region predicted by many theoretical models beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-14 Hajime Nishiguchi

A new timing detector measuring ~50 MeV/c positrons is under development for the MEG II experiment, aiming at a time resolution $\sigma_t \sim 30~\mathrm{ps}$. The resolution is expected to be achieved by measuring each positron time with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-23 P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , M. Nishimura , W. Ootani , M. Rossella , S. Shirabe , Y. Uchiyama

We present a report of the MEG II experiment, the upgrade of MEG, whose goal is to search for the forbidden decay \megc\ with increased precision. After having briefly reviewed the motivation for such a search and the current limit due to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 P. W. Cattaneo

We report on the design and performance of the electromagnetic calorimeter timing readout system (EMTiming) for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). The system will be used in searches for rare events with high energy photons to verify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Goncharov , T. Kamon , V. Khotilovich , V. Krutelyov , S. W. Lee , D. Toback , P. Wagner , H. Frisch , H. Sanders , M. Cordelli , F. Happacher , S. Miscetti , R. Wagner

An analysis is given of the decay $\mu \to e+ \gamma$ in an MSSM extension with a vectorlike generation. Here mixing with the mirrors allows the possibility of this decay. The analysis is done at the one loop level with the exchange of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-26 Tarek Ibrahim , Ahmad Itani , Pran Nath

We propose the continuation of the MEG experiment to search for the charged lepton flavour violating decay (cLFV) \mu \to e \gamma, based on an upgrade of the experiment, which aims for a sensitivity enhancement of one order of magnitude…

The MEGA experiment, which searched for the muon- and electron-number violating decay \mu -> e + \gamma, is described. The spectrometer system, the calibrations, the data taking procedures, the data analysis, and the sensitivity of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Ahmed

The COMET Phase-$\alpha$ experiment aims to evaluate the novel muon transport beamline for the muon-to-electron conversion search at J-PARC, Japan. A dedicated Range Counter (RC) was developed to measure the momentum spectrum of transported…

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