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Lepton flavor violation (LFV), observed conclusively in neutrino oscillations, remains a pivotal area of investigation due to its absence in the Standard Model (SM). Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics explores charged lepton flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jia Liu , Muyuan Song , Haohao Zhang

The NuTeV experiment at Fermilab has used a sign-selected neutrino beam to perform a search for the lepton number violating process nu_mu-bar e^- -> mu^- nu_e-bar, and to measure the cross-section of the Standard Model inverse muon decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 NuTeV Collaboration , J. A. Formaggio , J. Yu

A search for new physics using three-lepton (trilepton) data collected with the CDF II detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 976 pb-1 is presented. The standard model predicts a low rate of trilepton events, which makes…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The CDF Collaboration

We study the interplay of New Physics (NP) among the lepton magnetic moment, the lepton flavor violation (LFV) and the electron electric dipole moment (EDM) in light of recent data of the muon $(g-2)_\mu$. The NP is discussed in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-15 Morimitsu Tanimoto , Kei Yamamoto

The Muon-to-Electron Conversion (Mu2e) Experiment demands a highly precise magnet and collimator system to achieve a stringent extinction level of $1\times 10^{-10}$ for out-of-time beam particles. Extinction is ensured by an AC Dipole…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Ryan Hensley , Eric Prebys , Sridhar Tripathy

A new measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu} \equiv (g-2)/2$, will be performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The most recent measurement, performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory and completed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Wesley Gohn

We search for lepton flavour violating events (e mu, e tau and mu tau) that could be directly produced in e+e- annihilations, using the full available data sample collected with the OPAL detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL collaboration , G. Abbiendi

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…

We study nuclear muon-electron (mu-e) conversion in the general framework of effective Lagrangian approach without referring to any specific realization of the physics beyond the standard model (SM) responsible for lepton flavor violation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. S. Kosmas , Sergey Kovalenko , Ivan Schmidt

We study the lepton-flavor-violating reaction $\mu^+ e^- \to e^+ e^-$ within two extensions of the standard model that include heavy neutrinos. The reaction is studied in the low energy limit in the form of muonium decay $M\to e^+ e^-$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gorazd Cvetic , Claudio O. Dib , Choong-Sun Kim , JungDae Kim

The R_K measurement by LHCb suggests non-standard lepton non-universality (LNU) to occur in b -> s l+ l- transitions, with effects in muons rather than electrons. A number of other measurements of b -> s l+ l- transitions by LHCb and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-17 Diego Guadagnoli , Dmitri Melikhov , Meril Reboud

Muonium is a bound state composed of an antimuon and an electron, and it constitutes a hydrogen-like atom. Because of the absence of the hadronic matter in the bound state, the muonium is a useful probe to explore new physics being free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Takeshi Fukuyama , Yukihiro Mimura , Yuichi Uesaka

The E989 Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab aims to measure the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_\mu$, to an unprecedented precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb), representing a four-fold improvement over the current best measurement, achieved at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-15 A. T. Fienberg

The search for axion-like particles $X$ in muon decays is an excellent opportunity for the MEG II and Mu3e experiments to extend their horizons beyond $\mu^+ \to e^+ \gamma$ and $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^- e^+$. A suitable process for both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-01 A. Gurgone

Contact interactions of a muon, an electron and two photons can contribute to the decay $\mu \to e \gamma \gamma$, but also to the conversion of a muon into an electron in the electric field of a nucleus. We calculate the $\mu \to e$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Sacha Davidson , Yoshitaka Kuno , Yuichi Uesaka , Masato Yamanaka

The experimental status of charged lepton flavor violation searches is briefly reviewed, with particular emphasis on the three classical searches involving muon transisions: $\mu \to e \gamma$, $\mu \to e$ conversion and $\mu \to 3e$.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-01 Giovanni Signorelli

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

We discuss charged lepton flavour violating processes occurring in the presence of muonic atoms, such as muon-electron conversion in nuclei $\text{CR}(\mu -e, \text{ N})$, the (Coulomb enhanced) decay of muonic atoms into a pair of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Abada , V. De Romeri , A. M. Teixeira

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

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-28 Marius Köppel

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