Speaker
Andrei Gaponenko
(Fermilab)
Description
The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrinoless conversion of
muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus with a sensitivity improvement of a factor
of 10,000 over previous experiments. Such a charged lepton flavor-violating reaction probes
new physics at a scale inaccessible with direct searches at either present or planned high
energy colliders. The experiment both complements and extends the current search for muon
decay to electron+gamma at MEG and searches for new physics at the LHC. We will present the physics motivation for Mu2e, the novel design of the muon beamline and the detector, and the current status of the experiment.
Primary author
Andrei Gaponenko
(Fermilab)
