Mu2e 2015: Ground is Broken

by Dr Pavel Murat (Fermilab)

Friday 13 Feb 2015, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

131 (INFN edificio C)

Charge lepton flavor violating processes (CLFV) are yet to be observed.
Their expected SM rates are so low that any experimental indication of
a CLFV process could be a signature of a new physics.

Using stopped muons for CLFV searches opens a way to extend the sensitivity
to new physics up to the scale of 10^4 TeV, beyond the reach of
current high energy colliders. Several experiments aiming to search for
flavor violating mu --> e transitions are currently in preparation.

I will review physics goals and the current status of one of such experiments,
the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab. Mu2e will search for the coherent mu --> e
conversion on nuclei with the sensitivity of 4 orders of magnitude better
than presently achieved.