The MEG experiment at PSI: status and prospect

✍ Scribed by M. Grassi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 149 KB
• Volume: 149
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.05.071

✦ Synopsis

Lepton flavor violation processes are generically allowed in most of the extensions of the Standard Model. In particular, Super-Symmetric Grand-Unified theories predict rates for the µ + → e + γ decay not far from the present experimental limit. The MEG Collaboration is designing a detector to search for this lepton flavor violating decay with a sensitivity of ∼ 5 × 10 -14 . The present status of the detector developments, the required detector performances and the time schedule for the experiment completion are discussed.