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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 64: Fundamental Symmetries I

HK 64.1: Gruppenbericht

Donnerstag, 31. März 2022, 14:00–14:30, HK-H9

Probing charged lepton flavor violation with the Mu2e experiment — •Stefan E. Müller, Anna Ferrari, Oliver Knodel, and Reuven Rachamin for the Mu2e collaboration — Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

The Mu2e experiment, which is currently under construction at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, will search for the neutrinoless conversion of muons to electrons in the field of an aluminum nucleus. This process, which violates charged lepton flavor, is highly suppressed in the Standard Model and therefore undetectable. However, scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model predict small but observable rates. The Mu2e experiment aims for a sensitivity four orders of magnitude better than previous experiments. This is achieved by a rigorous control of all backgrounds that could mimic the monoenergetic conversion electron.

At the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, we use a pulsed Bremsstrahlung photon beam at the ELBE radiation facility to study the performance of the detector system that will monitor the rate of stopped muons in the aluminum target. Additionally, Monte Carlo simulations are performed for both the pion production target and the muon stopping target.

In the presentation, the design and status of the Mu2e experiment and its detectors will be presented, and results from ELBE beamtimes and the simulation studies will be given.