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Title: The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab: A Search for Lepton Flavor Violation

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The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrino-less μ → e coherent conversion in the field of an aluminum nucleus. About 7⋅1017 muons, provided by a dedicated muon beam line in construction at Fermilab, will be stopped in 3 years in the aluminum target. The corresponding single event sensitivity will be 2.5⋅10−17. In this presentation, a brief overview of the physics explored by the μ → e conversion will be given, followed by a description of the Mu2e experimental apparatus and the expected detector performance.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
Mu2e
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1462081
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-SLIDES-18-086-E; 1683285
Resource Relation:
Journal Volume: 285-286; Conference: New Perspectives 2018, Batavia, IL, USA, 06/18-06/19/2018
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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