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The muon-to-electron conversion in nuclei like aluminum, titanium and gold is studied in the context of a class of mirror fermion model with non-sterile right-handed neutrinos having mass at the electroweak scale. At the limit of zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 P. Q. Hung , Trinh Le , Van Que Tran , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

The muon-to-electron conversion (Mu2e) experiment at Fermilab will be used to search for the charged lepton flavor-violating conversion of muons to electrons in the field of an atomic nucleus. The Mu2e experiment is currently in the…

Experimental searches for lepton-flavor-violating coherent muon-to-electron conversion in the field of a nucleus, have been proposed to reach the unprecedented sensitivity of 10^(-16) - 10^(-18) per stopped muon. At that level, they probe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-08 Andrzej Czarnecki , Xavier Garcia i Tormo , William J. Marciano

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the coherent $\mu \to e$ conversion on aluminum atoms. The detector system consists of a straw tube tracker and a crystal calorimeter. A pre-production of 150 Silicon Photomultiplier arrays…

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violating conversion of a muon to an electron in an atomic field. The Mu2e detector is composed of a tracker, an electromagnetic calorimeter and an external system,…

Forbidden in the Standard Model, Charged Lepton Flavour Violation is a strong probe for New Physics. The COMET Experiment will measure one of these processes: that of COherent Muon to Electron Transitions, where a muon converts to an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-31 Benjamin Edward Krikler

MECO will search for direct evidence of muon and electron flavor violation in the decay of muons in Coulomb bound states via coherent recoil of the nucleus and decay electron. The expected sensitivity to the $\mu^{-} {\rm N} \to e^{-} +…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 James L. Popp

Exploring the leptonic sector in frontier experiments is more of importance nowadays, since the conservation of lepton flavor and total lepton number are not guaranteed anymore in the Standard Model after the discovery of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-25 Beomki Yeo , Yoshitaka Kuno , MyeongJae Lee , Kai Zuber

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab aims to measure the charged lepton flavor violating neutrinoless muon to electron conversion. The goal of the experiment is to reach a single event sensitivity of 2.5 x 10^{-17}, to set an upper limit on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 Raffaella Donghia

The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum acceptance of 10%. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 D. Adey , S. K. Agarwalla , C. M. Ankenbrandt , R. Asfandiyarov , J. J. Back , G. Barker , E. Baussan , R. Bayes , S. Bhadra , V. Blackmore , A. Blondel , S. A. Bogacz , C. Booth , S. B. Boyd , A. Bravar , S. J. Brice , A. D. Bross , F. Cadoux , H. Cease , A. Cervera , J. Cobb , D. Colling , P. Coloma , L. Coney , A. Dobbs , J. Dobson , A. Donini , P. Dornan , M. Dracos , F. Dufour , R. Edgecock , J. Evans , M. Geelhoed , M. A. George , T. Ghosh , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , A. de Gouvea , A. Haesler , G. Hanson , P. F. Harrison , M. Hartz , P. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Hodgson , P. Huber , A. Izmaylov , Y. Karadzhov , T. Kobilarcik , J. Kopp , L. Kormos , A. Korzenev , Y. Kuno , A. Kurup , P. Kyberd , J. B. Lagrange , A. Laing , A. Liu , J. M. Link , K. Long , K. Mahn , C. Mariani , C. Martin , J. Martin , N. McCauley , K. T. McDonald , O. Mena , S. R. Mishra , N. Mokhov , J. Morfin , Y. Mori , W. Murray , D. Neuffer , R. Nichol , E. Noah , M. A. Palmer , S. Parke , S. Pascoli , J. Pasternak , M. Popovic , P. Ratoff , M. Ravonel , M. Rayner , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , P. Rubinov , E. Santos , A. Sato , T. Sen , E. Scantamburlo , J. K. Sedgbeer , D. R. Smith , P. J. Smith , J. T. Sobczyk , L. Soby , F. J. P. Soler , S. Soldner-Rembold , M. Sorel , P. Snopok , P. Stamoulis , L. Stanco , S. Striganov , H. A. Tanaka , I. J. Taylor , C. Touramanis , C. D. Tunnell , Y. Uchida , N. Vassilopoulos , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , M. J. Wilking , E. Wildner , W. Winter , U. K. Yang

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

The Muon (g-2) Experiment, E989 at Fermilab, will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment a factor-of-four more precisely than was done in E821 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS. The E821 result appears to be greater than the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-15 J. Grange , V. Guarino , P. Winter , K. Wood , H. Zhao , R. M. Carey , D. Gastler , E. Hazen , N. Kinnaird , J. P. Miller , J. Mott , B. L. Roberts , J. Benante , J. Crnkovic , W. M. Morse , H. Sayed , V. Tishchenko , V. P. Druzhinin , B. I. Khazin , I. A. Koop , I. Logashenko , Y. M. Shatunov , E. Solodov , M. Korostelev , D. Newton , A. Wolski , A. Chapelain , R. Bjorkquist , N. Eggert , A. Frankenthal , L. Gibbons , S. Kim , A. Mikhailichenko , Y. Orlov , D. Rubin , D. Sweigart , D. Allspach , G. Annala , E. Barzi , K. Bourland , G. Brown , B. C. K. Casey , S. Chappa , M. E. Convery , B. Drendel , H. Friedsam , T. Gadfort , K. Hardin , S. Hawke , S. Hayes , W. Jaskierny , C. Johnstone , J. Johnstone , V. Kashikhin , C. Kendziora , B. Kiburg , A. Klebaner , I. Kourbanis , J. Kyle , N. Larson , A. Leveling , A. L. Lyon , D. Markley , D. McArthur , K. W. Merritt , N. Mokhov , J. P. Morgan , H. Nguyen , J-F. Ostiguy , A. Para , C. C. Polly M. Popovic , E. Ramberg , M. Rominsky , D. Schoo , R. Schultz , D. Still , A. K. Soha , S. Strigonov , G. Tassotto , D. Turrioni , E. Villegas , E. Voirin , G. Velev , L. Welty-Rieger , D. Wolff , C. Worel , J-Y. Wu , R. Zifko , K. Jungmann , C. J. G. Onderwater , P. T. Debevec , S. Ganguly , M. Kasten , S. Leo , K. Pitts , C. Schlesier , M. Gaisser , S. Haciomeroglu , Y-I. Kim , S. Lee , M-J Lee , Y. K. Semertzidis , K. Giovanetti , V. A. Baranov , V. N. Duginov , N. V. Khomutov , V. A. Krylov , N. A. Kuchinskiy , V. P. Volnykh , C. Crawford , R. Fatemi , W. P. Gohn , T. P. Gorringe , W. Korsch , B. Plaster , A. Anastasi , D. Babusci , S. Dabagov , C. Ferrari , A. Fioretti , C. Gabbanini , D. Hampai , A. Palladino , G. Venanzoni , T. Bowcock , J. Carroll , B. King , S. Maxfield , K. McCormick , J. Price , D. Sim , A. Smith , T. Teubner , W. Turner , M. Whitley , M. Wormald , R. Chislett , S. Kilani , M. Lancaster , E. Motuk , T. Stuttard , M. Warren , D. Flay , D. Kawall , Z. Meadows , T. Chupp , R. Raymond , A. Tewlsey-Booth , M. J. Syphers , D. Tarazona , S. Catalonotti , R. Di Stefano , M. Iacovacci , S. Mastroianni , S. Chattopadhyay , M. Eads , M. Fortner , D. Hedin , N. Pohlman , A. de Gouvea , H. Schellman , L. Welty-Rieger , F. Azfar , S. Henry , G. D. Alkhazov , V. L. Golovtsov , P. V. Neustroev , L. N. Uvarov , A. A. Vasilyev , A. A. Vorobyov , M. B. Zhalov , L. Cerrito , F. Gray , G. Di Sciascio , D. Moricciani , C. Fu , X. Ji , L. Li , H. Yang , D. Stöckinger , G. Cantatore , D. Cauz , M. Karuza , G. Pauletta , L. Santi , S. Baeßler , M. Bychkov , E. Frlez , D. Pocanic , L. P. Alonzi , M. Fertl , A. Fienberg , N. Froemming , A. Garcia , D. W. Hertzog J. Kaspar , P. Kammel , R. Osofsky , M. Smith , E. Swanson , T. van Wechel , K. Lynch

$\mu-e$ conversion is the experimentally most interesting lepton flavor violating process. From a theoretical point of view it is an interesting interplay of particle and nuclear physics. The effective transition operator, depending on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 T. S. Kosmas , J. D. Vergados

This article reviews the muon g-2 experiment, a cornerstone in precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics. The experiment measures the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon with unprecedented accuracy, seeking potential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-06 Marin Karuza

The current $\sim3.5\sigma$ discrepancy between the experimental measurement and theoretical prediction of the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_{\mu}$, stands as a potential indication of the existence of new physics. The Muon $g-2$ experiment at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-07-24 Alexander Keshavarzi

Mu2e and COMET will search for electrons produced via the neutrinoless conversion of stopped muons bound in 1s atomic orbits of $^{27}$Al, improving existing limits on charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) by roughly four orders of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 W. C. Haxton , Evan Rule

The Mu2e experiment measures the conversion rate of muons into electrons and the Muon g-2 experiment measures the muon magnetic moment. Both experiments require 53 MHz batches of 8 GeV protons to be re-bunched into 150 ns, 2.5 MHz pulses…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 P. Varghese , B. Chase

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

The Muon-to-Electron Conversion (Mu2e) Experiment demands a highly precise magnet and collimator system to achieve a stringent extinction level of $1\times 10^{-10}$ for out-of-time beam particles. Extinction is ensured by an AC Dipole…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Ryan Hensley , Eric Prebys , Sridhar Tripathy

There are two plans of experiments to search for muon to electron ($\mu$-$e$) conversion at J-PARC, which are called DeeMe and COMET. The $\mu$-$e$ conversion is one of the charged lepton flavor violation processes. The processes are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Teshima