Status of the Mu3e Experiment at PSI
| Autor: | Perrevoort, Ann-Kathrin, Mu3e Collaboration |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Physics
Particle physics Muon Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors 010308 nuclear & particles physics Branching fraction Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors QC1-999 Physics beyond the Standard Model High Energy Physics::Phenomenology FOS: Physical sciences Computer Science::Computation and Language (Computational Linguistics and Natural Language and Speech Processing) Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) 01 natural sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) 0103 physical sciences ddc:530 High Energy Physics::Experiment Sensitivity (control systems) 010306 general physics |
| Zdroj: | Workshop on "Flavour Changing and Conserving Processes, FCCP2015, Capri Island, Italy, 2015-09-10-2015-09-12 The European physical journal / Web of Conferences 118, 01028-(2016). doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611801028 International Workshop on Flavour Changing and Conserving Processes 2015, FCCP2015, Anacapri, Italy, 2016-09-10-2016-09-12 EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 118, p 01028 (2016) |
| DOI: | 10.1051/epjconf/201611801028 |
| Popis: | The Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton-flavour violating decay $\mu^+\rightarrow\ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^-$ with a sensitivity to one signal decay in $10^{16}$ muon decays at a muon stopping rate of $2\times 10^9 \frac{\mu}{\text{s}}$. With currently available rates of $10^8 \frac{\mu}{\text{s}}$, a sensitivity on the branching ratio of $10^{-15}$ is the aim of the first phase. This will allow for tests of new physics models with enhanced branching ratios for lepton-flavour violating processes with an unprecedented precision. The experiment must be operated at very high muon rates all the while suppressing the background of the decay $\mu^+\rightarrow\ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^- \text{e}^+ \overline{\nu}_\mu \nu_\text{e}$ and accidental electron-positron combinations. Therefore, a tracking detector made of thin pixel sensors with additional scintillating fibres and tiles for precise time measurement will be built. The development of the subdetectors is ongoing while detector construction is still in preparation. Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, invited talk given at the FCCP 2015 workshop |
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