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The recent progress in search for T-violating transverse muon polarization in the decays K^+ --> pi^0 mu^+ nu and K^+ --> mu^+ nu gamma in the on-going experiment E246 at KEK is reported. Future prospects in polarization measurements are…
We report the results of the measurement of T-violating transverse muon polarization in the decays K^+ --> pi^0 mu^+ nu and K^+ --> mu^+ nu gamma performed in the experiment E246 at KEK. Preliminary results obtained for the entire data set…
A search for T-violating transverse muon polarization ($P_T$) in the $K^{+}\to \pi^{0}\mu^{+}\nu$ decay was performed using kaon decays at rest. A new improved value, $P_T= -0.0017\pm 0.0023 (stat)\pm 0.0011 (syst)$, was obtained giving an…
A search for T-violating muon polarization in the $K^+ \to \pi^0 \mu^+\nu$ decay has been performed at KEK using stopped kaons. A new improved limit was obtained, $P_T= -0.0017 \pm 0.0023 (stat) \pm 0.0011 (syst)$, corresponding to a 90 %…
We present the result of the first measurement of the T-violating muon polarization P_T in the decay K^+ --> mu^+ nu gamma. This polarization is sensitive to new sources of CP-violation in the Higgs sector. Using data accumulated in the…
We study the T violating transverse muon polarization in the decay of $K^+\to \mu^+\nu\gamma$ due to CP violation in theories beyond the standard model. We find that the polarization asymmetry could be large in some CP violation models and…
The detector built at KEK to search for T-violating transverse muon polarization in K+ --> pi0 mu+ nu (Kmu3) decay of stopped kaons is described. Sensitivity to the transverse polarization component is obtained from reconstruction of the…
The T violating transverse muon polarizations in $K^+\to \pi^0\mu^+\nu$ and $K^+\to \mu^+\nu\gamma$ decays due to tensor interactions are studied. The magnitudes of these polarizations over the allowed phase space are presented.
Measurement of the transverse muon polarization $P^{\bot}_{\mu}$ in the $K^+ \rightarrow \mu^+\nu\gamma$ decay will be attempted for the first time at the ongoing KEK E246 experiment and also at a proposed BNL experiment. We provide a…
We propose a new experiment at the AGS to search for the T-violating polarization of the muon normal to the decay plane of the K+ to mu+ pi0 nu decay. Motivated by the need for a stronger CP violation source to account for the baryon…
We study the potential of the measurement of the transverse muon polarization P_T in the K->mu nu gamma decay with the sensitivity of \delta P_T ~ 10^{-4}. It is shown that the forthcoming experiment can measure the contribution of the…
The muon transverse polarization in the $K^+ \leftarrow \pi^0 \mu^+ \nu_\mu$ decay will be measured at the $10^{-4}$ level in forthcoming experiments. We compare the phenomenological perspectives with the theoretical predictions in…
The potentiality of an experiment measuring the muon polarization in $K^+\rightarrow\pi^0\mu^+\nu_\mu$ at a $\phi$ factory is discussed, with particular attention to the possibility of revealing unexpected violation of Time reversal…
We have designed a new experiment (E923) at the BNL-AGS to search for the T-violating polarization of the muon normal to the decay plane of the KMU3 decay. The experiment aims to search for T-violation beyond the Standard Model; such a…
We present a new high precision measurement of parity violation in the weak interaction, using polarized muon decay. The TWIST collaboration has measured $P_\mu^\pi \xi$, where $P_\mu^\pi$ is the polarization of the muon in pion decay and…
The effect of lepton transverse polarization in the B^0 --> D^- l^+ nu_l, B^+ --> bar(D^0) l^+ nu_l decays (l= tau, mu) is analyzed within the framework of Standard Model in the leading order of HQET. It is shown that the non-zero…
We find that the normal muon polarization in the decay K->mu nu_mu gamma is very sensitive to the values of the kaon vector F_V and axial-vector F_A form factors. It is shown that the ongoing KEK-E246 experiment can definitely determine the…
I review the theoretical basis of the prediction that the decay K_L -> pi+ pi- e+ e- should show a large CP- and T-violation, a prediction now confirmed by the KTeV experiment. The genesis of the effect lies in a large violation of CP- and…
We have examined the physics and the experimental feasibility of studying various kaon decay processes in which the polarization of a muon in the final state is measured. Valuable information on CP violation, the quark mixing (CKM) matrix,…
We present a detailed estimate of the transverse muon polarization (P_T) due to electromagnetic final-state interactions in the decay $K^+ \to \mu^+ \nu \gamma$. This CP-conserving effect represents the dominant contribution to P_T within…