4–6 Jul 2022
University of Zurich
Europe/Zurich timezone

Mu3e looking for rare muon decays

6 Jul 2022, 16:15
15m
BIN-0-K.02 (University of Zurich)

BIN-0-K.02

University of Zurich

Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 Zürich
Talk in young researcher session Young researcher session Young researcher session

Speaker

Yannick Demets (University of Geneva)

Description

Mu3e is a dedicated experiment to search the rare charged lepton flavor violating (cLFV) decay $\mu^{+} \rightarrow{} e^{+}e^{-}e^{+}$ with a sensitivity down to $10^{-16}$ under construction at PSI. In the Standard Model, this decay is heavily suppressed with a branching fraction of $10^{-54}$. The Mu3e experiment will be able to reconstruct low momentum electrons and positrons from rare $\mu$ decays. Mu3e apparatus consists of a tracking detector based on monolithic active pixel sensors for very precise momentum and vertex reconstruction, combined with scintillating fibers and tiles for very high timing measurements. The motivation for the $\mu^{+} \rightarrow{} e^{+}e^{-}e^{+}$ search will be presented, along with experimental design and subsequent expected sensitivity.

Author

Yannick Demets (University of Geneva)

Presentation materials