2–6 Dec 2014
King's College London, Strand Campus
Europe/London timezone

Status and prospects for the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab

2 Dec 2014, 14:45
30m
Great Hall

Great Hall

Contribution (25 + 5 min) Accidental symmetries (B, L conservation) Parallel 4: Experiments-discrete-symmetries

Speaker

Dr Giovanni F. Tassielli (INFN Lecce / Università del Salento)

Description

The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrino-less conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus with a sensitivity improvement of a factor of 10,000 over existing limits. Such a lepton flavor-violating reaction probes new physics at a scale inaccessible with direct searches at either present or planned high energy colliders. The experiment both complements and extends the current search for muon decay to electron+gamma at MEG and searches for new physics at the LHC. We will present the physics motivation for Mu2e, the design of the muon beamline and the detector, and the current status of the experiment.

Primary authors

Douglas Glenzinski (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) Marjorie Corcoran (Ruce University)

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