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The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab
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- Proposed: Oct 18, 2008,
- Approved: Aug, 2010,
- Still Running
Mu2e Collaboration
The muon-to-electron conversion experiment (Mu2e) is designed to search for the coherent, neutrino-less conversion of a muon to an electron, in the Coulomb field of a nucleus with a single event sensitivity of about . Should such a process occur, it would violate the rule in the Standard Model of particle physics that requires the conservation of lepton flavor for charged particles like the muon and electron, Charged Lepton Flavor Violation for short. Should this process be observed it will provide dramatic evidence of a new physical process that is beyond our current understanding of elementary particle physics. More information is available at the Mu2e website. The Mu2e Collaboration is a group of more than 200 physicists drawn from about 37 research institutions in Italy, Russia, Germany, China, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, who have come together to mount this experiment. The Mu2e experiment will utilize an intense muon beam produced by the accelerator complex at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab, located in the far west suburbs of Chicago, Illinois in the USA. The experiment received DOE CD-3 approval for construction in June 2016 and construction activities have begun. Commissioning is scheduled to begin in 2020.
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