17–24 Jul 2024
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Status of the muEDM experiment at PSI

18 Jul 2024, 14:30
15m
South Hall 1B

South Hall 1B

Parallel session talk 05. Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics

Speaker

Francesco Renga (INFN Roma)

Description

Explaining the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe requires new sources of CP violation beyond the predictions of the Standard Model (SM). Electric dipole moments (EDMs) of particles, being zero if CP is exactly conserved and extremely small in the SM, are a very clean and sensitive probe for new physics. We will present the status of the muEDM experiment, a search for a muon EDM at PSI (CH) pioneering the frozen spin technique. Muons will be stored in a solenoid, with a radial electric field tuned to eliminate the spin precession generated by the magnetic moment. Measuring a residual, longitudinal precession would indicate a non-zero EDM. The first phase of the experiment will demonstrate, by 2026, the feasibility and unique potential of the technique, while reaching a sensitivity competitive with the parasitic measurements performed in the muon g-2 experiments. The ultimate goal of the muEDM experiment is to improve this sensitivity by a factor of 100 by the early 2030s.

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Author

Francesco Renga (INFN Roma)

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