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The Muon-to-Electron (Mu2e) experiment at Fermilab, will seek the evidence of direct muon to electron conversion at the sensitivity level where it cannot be explained by the Standard Model. An 8-GeV 25-kW proton beam will be directed onto a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 V. S. Pronskikh , V. V. Kashikhin , N. V. Mokhov

The Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton-flavour violating decay $\mu^+\rightarrow\ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^-$ with a sensitivity to one signal decay in $10^{16}$ muon decays at a muon stopping rate of $2\times 10^9…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

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 and COMET experiments are expected to improve existing limits on charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) by roughly four orders of magnitude. $\mu\rightarrow e$ conversion experiments are typically optimized for electrons produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-08 W. C. Haxton , Evan Rule

We explore the potential of the Mu2e experiment to probe the lepton-flavor-violating process $\mu^- e^- \to e^- e^-$ in a muonic atom within a simplified axion-like particle (ALP) framework featuring flavor-violating $e$-$\mu$ couplings and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Girish Kumar , Alexey A. Petrov

The recent confirmation of the muon $g-2$ anomaly by the Fermilab g-2 experiment may harbinger a new era in $\mu$ and $\tau$ physics. In the context of general two Higgs doublet model, the discrepancy can be explained via one-loop exchange…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-15 Wei-Shu Hou , Girish Kumar

This proceedings contribution discusses Lorentz and CPT violation in the context of charged-lepton flavor-changing processes. Particular emphasis is placed on coherent muon-to-electron conversion in muonic atoms. Data collected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 N. Sherrill

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

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

I describe the new generation of muon-to-electron conversion experiments, COMET and Mu2e, being constructed to make use of new high power pulsed muon beams a J-PARC and Fermilab respectively. A brief overview of the physics explored by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-04 R. P. Litchfield

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

Since its discovery, the muon has proven to be an invaluable probe of the Standard Model (SM). Muons are readily available in tertiary beams in facilities around the world. They do not decay hadronically and have a lifetime of a few $\mu$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-04 Sophie Middleton

We study muonium-antimuonium conversion and mu+ e- to mu- e+ scattering within two different lepton-flavor-violating models with heavy neutrinos: model I is a typical seesaw that violates lepton number as well as flavor; model II has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gorazd Cvetic , Claudio O. Dib , C. S. Kim , J. D. Kim

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

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,…

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

Charged lepton flavour violating transitions would be a clear signal of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Their search has been carried out in a variety of channels, the most sensitive being those involving a muon: however no positive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-05 Lorenzo Calibbi , Giovanni Signorelli

In a supersymmetric extension of the standard model with local gauged baryon and lepton numbers (BLMSSM), there are new sources for lepton flavor violation, because the right-handed neutrinos, new gauginos and Higgs are introduced. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Tao Guo , Shu-Min Zhao , Xing-Xing Dong , Chun-Gui Duan , Tai-Fu Feng