Searching for muon to electron conversion: The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab

Journal Article · 20 February 2019 · SciPost Physics Proceedings

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.1.038 · OSTI ID:1495529

Bonventre, Richard ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Mu2e experiment will measure the charged-lepton flavor violating (CLFV) neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. Mu2e will improve the previous measurement by four orders of magnitude, reaching a 90% C.L. limit of 8\times10^{-17} $8\times {10}^{-17}$ on the conversion rate. The experiment will reach mass scales of nearly 10^4 ${10}^4$ TeV, far beyond the direct reach of colliders. The experiment is sensitive to a wide range of new physics, complementing and extending other CLFV searches. Mu2e is under design and construction at the Muon Campus of Fermilab; we expect to start taking physics data in 2022 with 3 years of running to achieve our target sensitivity.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1495529
• Journal Information: SciPost Physics Proceedings, Journal Name: SciPost Physics Proceedings Journal Issue: 1
• Publisher: Stichting SciPostCopyright Statement
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• Language: English