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At PSI a high-precision experiment is being set up to search for the muon electric dipole moment (muEDM) employing the frozen-spin technique. A muEDM larger than the Standard Model prediction would be a sign of new physics. The search will eventually improve the current best direct limit by three orders of magnitude to $6\cdot 10^{-23}$ e$\cdot$cm. The EDM signal is measured by detecting the change in emission asymmetry of decay positrons from stored muons in the bore of a magnet. Muons that cannot be stored are stopped after injection, giving rise to background events. A simulation was set up to study the discrimination of signal events against background events. Furthermore, systematic effects must be controlled and are investigated in simulations, such as an apparent EDM due to a non-zero electric field $E_z$ along the axis of the magnet.
