[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Theory Seminar today at 13:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Tue 2015-03-10 at 13:00

Location:  Theory Room         

Speaker:   Robert Szafron (U Alberta)

Title:     Muons at the intensity frontier

Abstract: Muons play a special role in searching for New Physics at the
intensity frontier. Their decay distributions and the anomalous
magnetic moment constrain New Physics parameters.

Lepton-flavor violating muon decays are suppressed in the Standard
Model so their observation will clearly indicate nonstandard
interactions.  Many New Physics models predict that a muon bound to a
nucleus can undergo a conversion into an electron. A dangerous
background for searches of the conversion is a high-energy electron
from a standard bound muon decay.

In my talk I will discuss the recent progress in the evaluation of
selected muonic properties, particularly the electron spectrum in the
bound muon decay. I will present a recent analysis that brings the
TWIST measurement of this spectrum into a better agreement with the
Standard Model.




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