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Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (muon g-2) is one of the most precisely measured quantities in particle physics. At the same time, it can be evaluated in the Standard Model with an unprecedented accuracy. The Muon g-2 experiment at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-02-03 Marina Krstic Marinkovic , Nuno Cardoso

A muon collider is expected to produce a high intensity neutrino beam which is an admixture of either $\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu_e}$ or $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} +\nu_e$ which can can be directed to underground detectors far away from the source. It will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. N. Mohapatra

The Muon g-2 Experiment (E989) at Fermilab measures the muon magnetic anomaly, aiming to resolve the greater than 3$\sigma$ discrepancy between the previous measurement and the Standard Model calculation with an improved precision of 140…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-10 Ran Hong

The upcoming Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^+\,\rightarrow\,e^+ e^- e^+$ with the aim of a final sensitivity of one signal decay in $10^{16}$ observed muon decays, an improvement over the preceding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-28 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spread of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: serve the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 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 , L. Coney , A. Dobbs , J. Dobson , A. Donini , P. J. Dornan , M. Dracos , F. Dufour , R. Edgecock , J. Evans , M. A. George , T. Ghosh , A. deGouvea , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , A. Haesler , G. Hanson , M. Geelhoed , P. F. Harrison , M. Hartz , P. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando-Morata , P. J. Hodgson , P. Huber , A. Izmaylov , Y. Karadhzov , T. Kobilarcik , J. Kopp , L. Kormos , A. Korzenev , A. Kurup , Y. Kuno , P. Kyberd , J. P. Lagrange , A. M. Laing , J. Link , A. Liu , K. R. Long , N. McCauley , K. T. McDonald , K. Mahn , C. Martin , J. Martin , 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 , E. Scantamburlo , J. K. Sedgbeer , D. R. Smith , P. J. Smith , J. T. Sobczyk , S. Soldner-Rembold , F. J. P. Soler , M. Sorel , A. Stahl , L. Stanco , P. Stamoulis , S. Striganov , H. Tanaka , I. J. Taylor , C. Touramanis , C. D. Tunnel , Y. Uchida , N. Vassilopoulos , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , E. Wildner , M. J. Wilking , W. Winter , U. K. Yang

The spontaneous conversion of muonium to antimuonium is one of the interesting charged lepton flavor violation phenomena offering a sensitive probe of potential new physics and serving as a tool to constrain the parameter space beyond the…

Muon Collider (MC) - proposed by G. I. Budker and A. N. Skrinsky a few decades ago - is now considered as the most exciting option for the energy frontier machine in the post-LHC era. A national Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) is being…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-13 Y. Alexahin

The AlCap experiment is a joint project between the COMET and Mu2e collaborations. Both experiments intend to look for the lepton-flavour violating conversion $\mu + A \rightarrow e + A$, using tertiary muons from high-power pulsed proton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-21 R. Phillip Litchfield

The E989 Muon $g-2$ experiment at Fermilab aims to measure the anomalous magnetic moment, $a^{}_\mu$, of the muon with a precision of 140 parts-per-billion. This requires a precise measurement of both the anomalous spin precession…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-11 S. Corrodi , P. De Lurgio , D. Flay , J. Grange , R. Hong , D. Kawall , M. Oberling , S. Ramachandran , P. Winter

A recently proposed experiment, MUonE, aims to extract the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon g-2 from muon-electron scattering at low energy. The extrapolation requires that both experimental and theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-13 Marco Rocco

The experimental sensitivity to $\mu \to e$ conversion on nuclei is set to improve by four orders of magnitude in coming years. However, various operator coefficients add coherently in the amplitude for $\mu \to e$ conversion, weighted by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Sacha Davidson , Yoshitaka Kuno , Masato Yamanaka

Preliminary results from a search for neutral heavy leptons in the NuTeV experiment at Fermilab. The upgraded NuTeV neutrino detector for the 1996-1997 run included an instrumented decay region for the NHL search which, combined with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 NuTeV Collaboration , R. B. Drucker

A confirmation of the long-standing muon $g$-2 discrepancy requires both experimental and theoretical progress. On the theory side, the hadronic corrections are under close scrutiny, as they induce the leading uncertainty of the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 A. Masiero , P. Paradisi , M. Passera

The Mu2e experiment will search for a neutrino-less muon-to-electron conversion process with almost four orders of magnitude of sensitivity improvement relative to the current best limit. One important background is caused by cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-20 G. DeZoort , E. C. Dukes , R. C. Group , H. Kessenich , Y. Oksuzian , T. Rase , D. Shooltz

The persistent $a_\mu \equiv (g-2)/2$ anomaly in the muon sector could be due to new physics visible in the electron sector through a sub-ppb measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron $a_e$. Driven by recent results on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-05-27 F. Terranova , G. M. Tino

A new experiment has been set up at the Paul Scherrer Institut to search for muonium to antimuonium conversion. No event was found to fulfil the requested signature which consists of the coincident detection of both constituents of the…

Fermilab is dedicated to hosting world-class experiments in search of new physics that will operate in the coming years. The Muon g-2 Experiment is one such experiment that will determine with unprecedented precision the muon anomalous…

A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light sterile neutrinos that arises in short-baseline neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-26 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 , S. G. Bramsiepe , 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 , M. Geelhoed , M. A. Uchida , T. Ghosh , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , A. de Gouvêa , A. Haesler , G. Hanson , P. F. Harrison , M. Hartz , P. Hernández , 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. Morfín , Y. Mori , W. Murray , D. Neuffer , R. Nichol , E. Noah , M. A. Palmer , S. Parke , S. Pascoli , J. Pasternak , R. Plunkett , 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. Søby , F. J. P. Soler , 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

The decay $\mu^-\to e^- \bar{\nu}_e\nu_\mu$ of a muon that is bound to a nucleus poses an unavoidable background for experiments such as Mu2e, COMET, and DeeMe searching for lepton-flavor-violating $\mu^-\to e^-$ conversion and thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-21 Julian Heeck , Robert Szafron , Yuichi Uesaka

We present an estimate of the electron to muon conversion cross section in fixed-target elastic electron scattering. The matrix element $<\mu | j_\mathrm{em}^\mu(0) | e>$ is calculated analytically in two scenarios introducing suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kai-Peer O. Diener