3-8 June 2012
Hotel Fiesta Americana
Mexico/General timezone
- pascos2012@pegaso.fisica.unam.mx
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Hotel Fiesta Americana
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Yucatán
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A new idea to search for charged lepton flavor violation using a muonic atom
Speakers
- Prof. Joe SATO
Primary authors
- Prof. Joe SATO (Saitama University)
Co-authors
- Prof. Yoshitaka KUNO (Osaka University)
- Dr. Masafumi KOIKE (Saitama University)
- Dr. Masato YAMANAKA (KEK)
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Abstract content
We propose a new process of mu(-) e(-) -> e(-) e(-) in a muonic atom for a quest of charged lepton flavor violation. The Coulomb attraction from the nucleus in a heavy muonic atom leads to significant enhancement in its rate, compared to mu(+) e(-) -> e(+) e(-). The upper limit of the branching ratio is estimated to be of the orders of O[10^(-17)-10^(-18)] for the photonic and the four Fermi interactions from the present experimental constraints. The search for this process could serve complementarily with the other relevant processes to shed lights upon the nature of charged lepton flavor violation.