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The Mu2e experiment will search for a Standard Model violating rate of neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the presence of an aluminum nucleus. Observation of this charged lepton flavor violating process would be an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-28 Michael Thomas Hedges

The observation of lepton flavour violation (LFV) in interactions involving charged leptons would be an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Given that muons can be produced at high intensities,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-25 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

$\mu-e$ conversion is the experimentally most interesting lepton flavor violating process. From a theoretical point of view it is an interesting interplay of particle and nuclear physics. The effective transition operator, depending on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 T. S. Kosmas , J. D. Vergados

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavour violating (CLFV) conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus, with a distinctive signature of a mono-energetic electron of energy…

We study the Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) $e(\mu)-\tau$ conversion in Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) of electron (muon) on fixed-target nuclei. Our model-independent analysis is based on the set of the low-energy effective four-fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Sergei Gninenko , Sergey Kovalenko , Serguei Kuleshov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Alexey S. Zhevlakov

We present theoretical predictions for $\mu \rightarrow e$ conversion rates using a tower of effective field theories connecting the UV to nuclear physics scales. The interactions in nuclei are described using a recently developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 Wick Haxton , Kenneth McElvain , Tony Menzo , Evan Rule , Jure Zupan

Neutrino masses provide evidence of lepton flavour violation, but no violation in the interactions among the charged leptons has been observed yet. Many models of Physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) predict Charged Lepton Flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-15 Marco Ardu , Gianantonio Pezzullo

The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for the coherent, neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of an aluminium nucleus with an unprecedented sensitivity. Such a charged lepton flavor-violating reaction probes new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 Luca Morescalchi

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrino-less $\mu \to e$ coherent conversion in the field of an aluminum nucleus. About $7 \cdot 10^{17}$ muons, provided by a dedicated muon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-22 G. Pezzullo

The experimental sensitivity to $\mu \to e$ conversion on nuclei is set to improve by four orders of magnitude in coming years. However, various operator coefficients add coherently in the amplitude for $\mu \to e$ conversion, weighted by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Sacha Davidson , Yoshitaka Kuno , Masato Yamanaka

The Mu2e collaboration has proposed an experiment to search for the coherent, neutrino-less conversion of a muon into an electron in the Coulomb field of a nucleus with an expected sensitivity of $R_{\mu e}<6.0\times 10^{-17}$, at the 90%…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-12-02 Robert K. Kutschke

The rate for $\mu\to e$ conversion in nuclei is set to provide the most stringent test of lepton-flavor symmetry and a window into physics beyond the Standard Model. However, to disentangle new lepton-flavor-violating interactions, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Matthias Heinz , Martin Hoferichter , Takayuki Miyagi , Frederic Noël , Achim Schwenk

These proceedings review the status of present and future bounds on muonic lepton flavour violating transitions in the context of an effective-field theory defined below the electroweak scale. A specific focus is set on the phenomenology of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Giovanni Marco Pruna

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 2016-12-30 V. Pronskikh , D. Glenzinski , K. Knoepfel , N. Mokhov , R. Tschirhart

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 report on the status of charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) experiments with muons. We focus on the three "golden channels": $\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} \gamma$, $\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} e^{-} e^{+}$ and $\mu^{-} N \rightarrow e^{-}…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-09 Dylan Palo

The $\mu$-$e$ conversion process is one of the most powerful ways to test lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) interactions involving charged leptons. The standard model with massive neutrinos predicts an extremely low rate for $\mu$-$e$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Yu-Qi Xiao , Xiao-Gang He , Hong-Yi Niu , Rong-Rong Zhang

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 charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) processes of $\mu^-e^-\rightarrow e^-e^-$ decay by four Fermi contact interactions in a muonic atom for various atoms are investigated. The wave functions of bound and scattering state leptons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 Yuichi Uesaka , Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Toru Sato , Masato Yamanaka

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