Research Proposal for an Experiment to Search for the Decay μeee\mu \to eee

Jan, 2013
104 pages
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We propose an experiment (Mu3e) to search for the lepton flavour violating decay mu+ -> e+e-e+. We aim for an ultimate sensitivity of one in 10^16 mu-decays, four orders of magnitude better than previous searches. This sensitivity is made possible by exploiting modern silicon pixel detectors providing high spatial resolution and hodoscopes using scintillating fibres and tiles providing precise timing information at high particle rates.
Note:
  • Research proposal submitted to the Paul Scherrer Institute Research Committee for Particle Physics at the Ring Cyclotron, 104 pages
  • lepton: flavor: violation
  • semiconductor detector: pixel
  • spatial resolution
  • hodoscope
  • muon: rare decay
  • proposed experiment
  • momentum resolution
  • scattering: Coulomb
  • background
  • time-of-flight counter