A novel experiment searching for the lepton flavour violating decay mu -> eee

Details A novel experiment searching for the lepton flavour violating decay mu -> eee A novel experiment searching for the lepton flavour violating decay mu -> eee

2011-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/1110.1504v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to NUFACT 11, XIIIth International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams

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Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations it is known that lepton flavour is not conserved. Lepton flavour violating processes in the charged lepton sector have so far however eluded detection; as they are heavily suppressed in the standard model of particle physics, an observation would be a clear signal for new physics and help to understand the source of neutrino masses and CP violation. We propose a novel experiment searching for the decay mu -> eee with the aim of ultimately reaching a sensitivity of 10^-16, an improvement by four orders of magnitude compared to previous experiments. The technologies enabling this step are thin high-voltage monolithic active pixel sensors for precise tracking at high rates with a minimum of material and scintillating fibres for high resolution time measurements.

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