| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 179, 2018
International Workshop on “Flavour Changing and Conserving Processes” (FCCP2017)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 01003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817901003 | |
| Published online | 23 May 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817901003
Status of the Mu2e experiment
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, via Enrico Fermi 40, Frascati, 00044 Italy
a e-mail: simona.giovannella@lnf.infn.it
Published online: 23 May 2018
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavor violating neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. The dynamics of such a process is well modelled by a two-body decay, resulting in a mono-energetic electron with an energy slightly below the muon rest mass. If no events are observed, in three years of running Mu2e will improve the current limit by four orders of magnitude. Such a charged lepton flavor-violating reaction probes new physics at a scale inaccessible with direct searches at either present or planned high energy colliders. The experiment both complements and extends the current search for muon decay to electron-photon at MEG and searches for new physics at the LHC. This paper focuses on the physics motivation, the design and the status of the experiment.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.