Muon Polarization Working Group Report
Abstract
We have examined the physics and the experimental feasibility at the AGS of various kaon decay processes in which the polarization of a muon in the final state is measured. Valuable information on CP violation, the CKM matrix or new physics can be obtained with these measurements and therefore they are well motivated. In particular, models of non-standard CP violation that produce the baryon asymmetry of the universe could also produce effects observable in these measurements. Limits from measurements such as the neutron and electron electric dipole moment, and epsilon-prime over epsilon in neutral kaon decays do not eliminate all of these models. We have made a more detailed examination of the measurement of the out of the plane muon polarization in Kmu3 decays. With our current knowledge of the AGS kaon beams and detector techniques it is possible to measure this polarization with an error approaching 10**-4. Such an experiment would be well justified since the sensitivity is well beyond the current direct experimental limit (5.3 times 10**-3) and the projected sensitivity (10**-3) of the currently running experiment at KEK in Japan.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9608015,
title = {Muon Polarization Working Group Report},
author = {Robert Adair and Grigor Atoyan and Basem Barakat and Milind V. Diwan and Jun Imazato and Vladimir Issakov and Yoshitaka Kuno and Thaddeus Kycia and Richard Larsen and Lawrence Leipuner and Hong Ma and Andrei Poblaguev and Jack Ritchie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9608015},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, no figures, To be published in the Proceedings of AGS2000, Workshop on AGS experiments for the 21st century, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, May 12-17, 1996