Speaker
Franco Grancagnolo
(INFN Lecce)
Description
The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrinoless
conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus with a
sensitivity improvement of a factor of 10,000 over previous experiments.
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 author
Franco Grancagnolo
(INFN Lecce)
