Status of the PIENU experiment

Numao, T. et al. (2014) Status of the PIENU experiment. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 556, 012002. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/556/1/012002)

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Abstract

The branching ratio, Re/μ = Γ(π → eν + eνγ)/Γ(π → μν + μνγ), provides a sensitive test of muon-electron universality in weak interactions. The status of the PIENU experiment at TRIUMF, which aims to improve the precision of the Re/μ measurement by a factor of > 5, is presented.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Protopopescu, Dr Dan and Britton, Professor David
Authors: Numao, T., Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Aoki, M., Blecher, M., Britton, D.I., Bryman, D.A., Bruch, D., Chen, S., Comfort, J., Cuen-Rochin, S., Doria, L., Gumplinger, P., Hussein, A., Igarashi, Y., Ito, S., Kettell, S., Kurchaninov, L., Littenberg, L., Malbrunot, C., Mischke, R., Protopopescu, D., Sher, A., Sullivan, T., and Vavilov, D.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Publisher:Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:1742-6588
ISSN (Online):1742-6596
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2014 The Authors
First Published:First published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series 556:012002
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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