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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

We have searched for proton into muon plus neutral kaon using data from a 91.7 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-I, a 49.2 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-II, and a 31.9 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-III. The…

A new experiment has been set up at the Paul Scherrer Institut to search for muonium to antimuonium conversion. No event was found to fulfil the requested signature which consists of the coincident detection of both constituents of the…

We present an estimate of the electron to muon conversion cross section in fixed-target elastic electron scattering. The matrix element $<\mu | j_\mathrm{em}^\mu(0) | e>$ is calculated analytically in two scenarios introducing suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kai-Peer O. Diener

I report on the progress of two new muon anomalous magnetic moment experiments, which are in advanced design and construction phases. The goal of Fermilab E989 is to reduce the experimental uncertainty of $a_\mu$ from Brookhaven E821 by a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-22 David W. Hertzog

The QUARTET collaboration aims to significantly improve the precision of the absolute nuclear charge radii of light nuclei from Li to Ne by using an array of metallic magnetic calorimeters to perform high-precision X-ray spectroscopy of…

We present a pioneering approach to tracking analysis within the COMET Phase-I experiment, which aims to search for the charged lepton flavor violating $\mu\to e$ conversion process in a muonic atom, at J-PARC, Japan. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-06 Fumihiro Kaneko , Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Ikuya Sato , Dorian Pieters , Chen Wu

We determine the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ correction to the energy spectrum of electrons produced in the decay of muons bound in atoms. We focus on the high-energy end of the spectrum that constitutes a background for the muon-electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Robert Szafron , Andrzej Czarnecki

Mu2e and COMET will search for electrons produced via the neutrinoless conversion of stopped muons bound in 1s atomic orbits of $^{27}$Al, improving existing limits on charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) by roughly four orders of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 W. C. Haxton , Evan Rule

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

Muon acceleration using a radio-frequency accelerator was recently demonstrated for the first time. Measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex is the first…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 M. Otani

We suggest that $e\to \mu$ conversion in low-energy electron-nucleus scattering is a new and potentially observable indirect signal of supersymmetry and should be searched for in experiment. We estimate the rate for this process in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Blazek , S. F. King

Heavy charged particles after nuclear muon capture are an important nuclear physics background to the muon-to-electron conversion experiments Mu2e and COMET, which will search for charged lepton flavor violation at an unprecedented level of…

Transition rates for coherent muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms, mu+N --> e+N, are computed for various types of muon number violating interactions. Attention is paid to relativistic atomic effects, Coulomb distortion, finite nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrzej Czarnecki , William J. Marciano , Kirill Melnikov

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

Two next generation muon $g-2$ experiments at Fermilab in the US and at J-PARC in Japan have been designed to reach a four times better precision from 0.54 ppm to 0.14 ppm and the challenge for the theory side is to keep up in precision as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Fred Jegerlehner

This letter of intent proposes an experiment to search for an electric dipole moment of the muon based on the frozen-spin technique. We intend to exploit the high electric field, $E=1{\rm GV/m}$, experienced in the rest frame of the muon…

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is being designed to study the coherent neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process has an extremely low probability in the Standard Model and its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 V. Pronskikh , D. Glenzinski , N. Mokhov , R. Tschirhart

The \emph{muX} project is conducting a series of muonic X-ray measurements in medium- and high-Z nuclei at PSI, utilizing a high-purity germanium detector array, in-beam muon detectors, and a modern digital data-acquisition system. A novel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-25 Frederik Wauters , Andreas Knecht

The muonium-to-antimuonium transition experiment is about to be updated. Notably, the experiment at J-PARC in Japan can explore the magnetic field dependence of the transition probability. In this paper, we investigate the information that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Takeshi Fukuyama , Yukihiro Mimura , Yuichi Uesaka