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The Mu3e experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute searches for the charged lepton flavor violating decay $\mu^+ \rightarrow e^+ e^+ e^-$. The experiment aims for an ultimate sensitivity of one in $10^{16}$ $\mu$ decays. The first phase of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-16 Marius Köppel

The Muon $g\textrm{-}2$ Experiment (E989) at Fermilab has a goal of measuring the muon anomaly ($a_\mu$) with unprecedented precision using positive muons. This measurement is motivated by the difference between the previous Brookhaven…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Eremey Valetov

A search for the lepton-flavor violating $\mu^{+}\rightarrow e^{+}\gamma$ decay using polarized muons is proposed. By measuring the angular distribution of $e^{+}$s with respect to the muon spin direction, in particular antiparallel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshitaka Kuno , Yasuhiro Okada

The ALICE experiment is dedicated to the study of the quark gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) is under consideration by the ALICE experiment to be part of its program of detectors upgrade…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antonio Uras

The main purpose of Heavy Flavor experiments is to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, or characterize it, should it be found elsewhere. Thus, current limits on New Physics (NP) are reviewed. New results are presented, some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-23 Sheldon Stone

The Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavor violating decay $\mu^+~\rightarrow~e^+~e^+~e^-$ with an ultimate aimed sensitivity of 1 event in $10^{16}$ decays. This goal can only be achieved by reducing the material budget per…

Two Higgs doublet models are attractive scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, lepton-specific manifestations remain contenders to explain the observed discrepancy between the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Oliver Atkinson , Matthew Black , Christoph Englert , Alexander Lenz , Aleksey Rusov

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab proposes to search for the coherent neutrino-less conversion of muons to electrons in the presence of a nucleus. The experimental signature for an aluminum target is an isolated 105 MeV electron exiting the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 S. Boi , A. Dyshkant , D. Hedin , E. Johnson , E. Prebys , P. Rubinov

Lepton Flavour Violation(LFV) is New Physics that must occur, but is stringently constrained by experiments searching for mu to e flavour change, such as $\mu \to e \gamma$, $\mu \to 3e$ and $\mu \to e$ conversion. However, in an Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Sacha Davidson

From the famous experiments of Stern and Gerlach to the present, measurements of magnetic dipole moments, and searches for electric dipole moments of ``elementary'' particles have played a major role in our understanding of sub-atomic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-08-17 B. Lee Roberts

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

We study lepton-flavor violation (LFV) effects occurring in the $e-\mu$ conversion in nuclei and in the rare radiative decays $\eta(\eta') \to \gamma \mu e$ of the $\eta$ and $\eta'$ mesons with a special impact of the sub-GeV mass vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-26 Alexey S. Zhevlakov , Sergey Kuleshov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Evgenie O. Oleynik

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

The anomalous magnetic moments of leptons represent excellent probes of the Standard Model and therefore also of possible new physics effects. In particular, the persisting hint of new physics in the muon $g$-2 motivates the investigation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-17 ZeQiang Wang

In the present work we review the most prominent lepton flavor violating processes ($\mu \ra e\gamma$, $\mu \ra 3e$, $(\mu , e)$ conversion, $M-\bar M$ oscillations etc), in the context of unified gauge theories. Many currently fashionable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 T. S. Kosmas , G. K. Leontaris , J. D. Vergados

Starting this summer, Fermilab will host a key experiment dedicated to the search for signals of new physics: The Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment. Its aim is to precisely measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. In full operation, in…

We study lepton flavour-violating interactions which could result in the $\tau$-lepton production in the $\nu_{\mu}N$ scattering or in $\mu \to \tau$ conversion on nucleons at high energies. Phenomenological bounds on the strength of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. N. Gninenko , M. M. Kirsanov , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev

We present an analysis of the lepton-number and lepton-flavour-violating process of muon-to-positron conversion $\mu^- + N \rightarrow e^+ + N'$, in the presence of an ultralight scalar dark matter (ULSDM) field which couples to neutrinos.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Purushottam Sahu , Manibrata Sen

We point out the importance of two-body final states of weak isosinglet neutral heavy leptons predicted in several models of new physics beyond the standard model. We concentrate on muon-type neutral heavy leptons $L_\mu^0$ with mass $M<2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Loretta M. Johnson , Douglas W. McKay , Tim Bolton

We propose a search at Mu3e for lepton flavor violating axion(-like) particles in $\mu\to 3e + a$ decays. By requiring an additional $e^+e^-$ pair from internal conversion, one can circumvent the calibration challenges which plague the $\mu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 Simon Knapen , Kevin Langhoff , Toby Opferkuch , Diego Redigolo