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The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrino-less conversion of negative muons into electrons in the field of an Aluminum nucleus, $\mu^- + Al \to e^- +Al$. Data collection start is planned for the end of 2021. The…

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…

Radiation damage on front-end readout and trigger electronics is an important issue in the COMET Phase-I experiment at J-PARC, which plans to search for the neutrinoless transition of a muon to an electron. To produce an intense muon beam,…

Dedicated experiments searching for lepton flavour violation can be performed very sensitively using K-decays and $\mu$-decays as well as neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay and muonium to antimuonium conversion. Although there is no…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 Klaus P. Jungmann

In models where lepton number is considered to be a spontaneously-broken global symmetry a massless Goldstone boson, the majoron (J), appears. We describe a procedure to explore the muon-electron-majoron coupling using the results from mu-e…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-22 Xavier Garcia i Tormo , Douglas Bryman , Andrzej Czarnecki , Matthew Dowling

The search for lepton flavour violation in charged lepton decays is highly sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. Among the possible processes, $\mu$-decays are considered to have the largest discovery potential in most of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-26 Luca Galli

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

The use of existing Fermilab facilities to provide beams for two muon experiments -- the Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment (Mu2e) and the New g-2 Experiment -- is under consideration. Plans are being pursued to perform these…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 M. J. Syphers

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

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 upcoming Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^- e^+$ with an unprecedented final sensitivity of one signal decay in $10^{16}$ observed muon decays by making use of an innovative…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-04 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

The observation of lepton flavour violation (LFV) in interactions involving charged leptons would be an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Given that muons can be produced at high intensities,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-25 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

We present a pioneering approach to tracking analysis within the COMET Phase-I experiment, which aims to search for the charged lepton flavor violating $\mu\to e$ conversion process in a muonic atom, at J-PARC, Japan. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-06 Fumihiro Kaneko , Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Ikuya Sato , Dorian Pieters , Chen Wu

We revisit charged lepton flavour in-flight conversions, in which a beam of electrons or muons is directed onto a fixed target, $e + N \to \mu +N$, $e + N \to \tau +N$ and $\mu + N \to \tau +N$, focusing on elastic interactions with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 A. Abada , V. De Romeri , J. Orloff , A. M. Teixeira

Transition rates for coherent muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms, mu+N --> e+N, are computed for various types of muon number violating interactions. Attention is paid to relativistic atomic effects, Coulomb distortion, finite nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrzej Czarnecki , William J. Marciano , Kirill Melnikov

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

A new Goldstone particle named Majoron is introduced in order to explain the origin of neutrino mass by some new physics models assuming that neutrinos are Majorana particle. By expanding signal region and using likelihood analysis, it…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-07 Tianyu Xing , Chen Wu , Han Miao , Hai-Bo Li , Weiguo Li , Ye Yuan , Yao Zhang

We analyze the lepton flavor violating process $\mu-e$ conversion in the framework of the minimal R-symmetric supersymmetric standard model. The theoretical predictions are determined by considering the experimental constraint on parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Ke-Sheng Sun , Sheng-Kai Cui , Wei Li , Hai-Bin Zhang

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

In this letter, we analyze for the first time the physics reach in terms of sensitivity to leptonic CP violation of the proposed MuOn-decay MEdium baseline NeuTrino beam (MOMENT) experiment, a novel neutrino oscillation facility that would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Mattias Blennow , Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez