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PIP-II is the Fermilab's flagship project for providing powerful, high-intensity proton beams to the laboratory's experiments. The heart of PIP-II is an 800-MeV superconducting linac accelerator. It will be located in a new tunnel with new…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 L. Lari , F. Cerutti , L. S. Esposito , C. Baffes , S. J. Dixon , N. V. Mokhov , I. Rakhno , I. S. Tropin

Current long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiments such as NO$\nu$A and T2K are mainly sensitive to physics in the neighbourhood of the first oscillation maximum of the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation probability. The future Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-04 Jogesh Rout , Sheeba Shafaq , Mary Bishai , Poonam Mehta

The J-PARC muon $g - 2$/EDM experiment aims to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly $a_{\mu} = (g -2) / 2 ~ $ and the muon electric dipole moment (EDM) $d_{\mu}$. The target sensitivity for $a_{\mu}$ is a statistical uncertainty of $450…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-28 E. Won , Woodo Lee

Understanding the quark and gluon substructure of the nucleon has been a prime goal of both nuclear and particle physics for more than thirty years and has led to much of the progress in strong interaction physics. Still the flavor…

This paper presents the final physics design of the Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) at Fermilab, focusing on the linear accelerator (Linac) and its beam transfer line. We address the challenges in longitudinal and transverse lattice…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Abhishek Pathak , Arun Saini , Eduard Pozdeyev

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab is under construction and due to begin operations in late 2004. NuMI will deliver an intense $\nu_{\mu}$ beam of variable energy 2-20 GeV directed into the Earth at 58 mrad.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Sacha E. Kopp

The recent measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Fermilab E989 experiment, when combined with the previous result at BNL, has confirmed the tension with the SM prediction at $4.2\,\sigma$ CL, strengthening the motivation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-05 D. W. P. Amaral , D. G. Cerdeno , A. Cheek , P. Foldenauer

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 Fermilab Muon Campus will host the Muon g-2 experiment - a world class experiment dedicated to the search for signals of new physics. Strict demands are placed on beam diagnostics in order to ensure delivery of high quality beams to the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 D. Stratakis , B. Drendel , M. J. Syphers

We study the exotic muon decays with five charged tracks in the final state. First, we investigate the Standard Model rate for $\mu^+ \to 3e^+\,2e^-\,2\nu$ ($B = 4.0\times 10^{-10})$ and find that the Mu3e experiment should have tens to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-15 Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Jure Zupan

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

Within framework of the $\mu$ from $\nu$ Supersymmetric Standard Model ($\mu\nu$SSM), three exotic right-handed neutrino superfields induce new sources for lepton-flavor violation. In this work, we investigate muon conversion to electron in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-26 Hai-Bin Zhang , Tai-Fu Feng , Guo-Hui Luo , Zhao-Feng Ge , Shu-Min Zhao

MINOS is an accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. An intense high energy neutrino beam is produced at Fermilab and sent to a near detector on the Fermilab site and also to a 5 kTon far detector 735 km away in the Soudan…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-22 Milind V. Diwan

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

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

The MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation search experiment at Fermilab has recently updated results from a search for $\bar\nu_\mu \rightarrow \bar\nu_e$ oscillations, using a data sample corresponding to $8.58 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Zelimir Djurcic

There has been a long-standing discrepancy between the experimental measurements of the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments and their predicted values in the Standard Model. This is particularly relevant in the case of the muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Pablo Escribano , Jorge Terol-Calvo , Avelino Vicente

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may explain the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly. We applied this idea to SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , Yi-Ming Zhong

We review the latest experimental achievements on the hadronic cross section measurements at low energy which are of fundamental importance for a precise evaluation of the hadronic contribution to the g-2 of the muon. We also discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Venanzoni

We study the capabilities of the short baseline neutrino program at Fermilab to probe the unitarity of the lepton mixing matrix. We find the sensitivity to be slightly better than the current one. Motivated by the future DUNE experiment, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-31 O. G. Miranda , Pedro Pasquini , M. Tórtola , J. W. F. Valle