The MEGA (Muon decays into an Electron and a GAmma ray) experiment [electronic resource] : A search for. mu. -->. e. gamma
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- Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1988.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- Pages: 6 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Los Alamos National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- The MEGA experiment is designed to search for the ..mu.. ..-->.. e..gamma.. process with a branching ratio sensitivity of 10/sup -13/. This decay violates the empirically established rule of lepton family number conservation and lies outside the Standard Model of electroweak interactions. In order for the experiment to make a factor of 500 improvement over the existing limit, a new design was adopted that employs highly modular, fast detectors and state-of-the-art electronic readout. The detectors are contained in a 15 kG solenoidal field produced by a superconducting magnet. The central region is a positron spectrometer, and the outer region is four layers of pair spectrometers. Data taking is expected to commence in 1989. 6 refs., 3 figs.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:la-ur-88-1866
E 1.99: conf-8805142-11
conf-8805142-11
la-ur-88-1866 - Subject(s)
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1988.
"la-ur-88-1866"
" conf-8805142-11"
"DE88014453"
3. international conference on the intersections between particle and nuclear physics, Rockport, ME, USA, 14 May 1988.
Cooper, M.D. - Funding Information
- W-7405-ENG-36
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