Volume 476 - 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2024) - Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics
Calibration of the Mu2e momentum scale using: 𝝅 + β†’ 𝒆 + 𝝂 𝒆
S.Β Tripathy* and Β On behalf of the Mu2e Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: January 15, 2025
Published on: April 29, 2025
Abstract
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the nuclear field by stopping negative muons on an Al target. The experimental signature of $\mu^{-}$ to $e^{-}$ conversion on Al is the observation of mono-energetic electrons with 104.97 MeV produced by the lepton violating reaction. Rejection of one of the most important experimental backgrounds coming from muon Decays-In-Orbit requires a momentum resolution $<1\%$ FWHM and a momentum scale calibrated to an accuracy of better than $0.1\%$ or $0.1$ MeV at an electron energy of $\sim$100 MeV. Among other momentum scale calibration techniques, the collaboration is considering using 68.9 MeV positrons from decays of stopped positive pions. This calibration measurement has a significant background dominated by the muon decays-in-flight affecting the calibration accuracy. In this article, we discuss the momentum calibration measurement results.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0468
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