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Charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) is a clear signal of new physics; it directly addresses the physics of flavor and of generations. The search for CLFV has continued from the early 1940's, when the muon was identified as a separate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-01-14 Robert H. Bernstein , Peter S. Cooper

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 accurate prediction of the neutrino beam produced in muon decays and the absence of opposite helicity contamination for a particular neutrino flavor make a future neutrino factory the ideal place to look for the lepton flavor violating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bueno , M. Campanelli , M. Laveder , J. Rico , A. Rubbia

The upcoming muon (g-2) experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a relative precision of 140 ppb, 4 times better than the previous experiment at BNL. The new experiment is motivated by the persistent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-07 J. Kaspar

Some recent precision experiments in low energy muon physics are discussed. Spectroscopy on the muonium atom, the bound state of a positve muon and an electron, has provided precise tests of standard theory and yielded most precise values…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 Klaus P. Jungmann

The lepton number and flavor violations are important possible ingredients of the lepton physics. The neutrinoless double beta decay and the transition of the muonium into antimuonuim are related to those violations. The former can give us…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-25 Takeshi Fukuyama , Yukihiro Mimura , Yuichi Uesaka

The muon magnetic anomaly, $a_{\mu}$, is a powerful test of the Standard Model of particle physics. A new experiment at Fermilab has recently measured $a_{\mu}$ with unprecedented precision, confirming the results of the earlier Brookhaven…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-16 K. R. Labe

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

In light of the recent result published by the Fermilab Muon $(g-2)$ experiment, we investigate a simple model that includes particles of fractional electric charges: a colour-singlet fermion and a scalar with charges $2/3e$ and $1/3e$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Elmer Ramirez Barreto , Alex G. Dias

Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations it is known that lepton flavour is not conserved. Lepton flavour violating processes in the charged lepton sector have so far however eluded detection; as they are heavily suppressed in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-02-11 Niklaus Berger

We review how the muon anomalous magnetic moment ($g-2$) and the quest for lepton flavor violation are intimately correlated. Indeed the decay $\mu \to e \gamma$ is induced by the same amplitude for different choices of in- and outgoing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-08 Manfred Lindner , Moritz Platscher , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion, which is a factor of four improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-04 J. L. Holzbauer

Flavor-changing signatures of Lorentz and CPT violation involving muon-electron conversions in muonic atoms are studied using effective field theory. Constraints on coefficients for Lorentz violation at parts in $10^{-12}$ GeV$^{-1}$ for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-13 Alan Kostelecky , W. P. McNulty , E. Passemar , N. Sherrill

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavour violating process of coherent neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the presence of an aluminum nucleus. The muons are produced by an 8 GeV proton beam from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. Liu , J. Williams , A. Makovec , M. Hedges , F. Pellemoine , K. Yonehara , G. Annala , K. Lynch , M. Bloomer , J. Popp , A. Edmonds , J. Miller

The next generation of lepton flavor violation experiments need high intensity and high quality muon beams. Production of such beams requires sending a short, high intensity proton pulse to the pion production target, capturing pions and…

The Mu2e experiment aims to test Charge Lepton Flavour Violation to an unprecedented level, enhancing the current sensitivity by four orders of magnitude for the neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons. A series of graded solenoids…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Giovannella

The upcoming Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^+\,\rightarrow\,e^+ e^- e^+$ with the aim of a final sensitivity of one signal decay in $10^{16}$ observed muon decays, an improvement over the preceding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-28 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion, which is a factor of four improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 J. L. Holzbauer

Lepton flavor violation (LFV) has been discovered in the neutrino sector by neutrino oscillation experiments. The minimally extended Standard Model (SM) to include neutrino masses allows LFV in the charged sector (CLFV) at the loop-level,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-12 MyeongJae Lee , Michael MacKenzie

We explore the feasibility of using TeV-energy muons to probe lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) processes mediated by an axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ with mass $\mathcal{O}(10~\textrm{GeV})$. We focus on $\mu\tau$ LFV interactions and assume…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 Brian Batell , Hooman Davoudiasl , Roman Marcarelli , Ethan T. Neil , Sebastian Trojanowski