TY - JOUR
T1 - Mu2e upgrade physics reach optimization studies for the PIP-II era
AU - Pronskikh, V.
AU - Glenzinski, D.
AU - Mokhov, N.
AU - Tschirhart, R.
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is being designed to study the coherent neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process has an extremely low probability in the Standard Model and its observation would provide unambiguous evidence for BSM physics. The Mu2e design aims to reach a single-event-sensitivity of about 2.5 x 10-17 and will probe effective new physics mass scales in the 103-104 TeV range, well beyond the reach of the LHC. This work examines the maximum beam power that can be tolerated for beam energies in the 0.5-8 GeV range exploring variations in the geometry in the region of the production target using the MARS15 code. This has implications for how the sensitivity might be further improved with a second generation experiment using an upgraded proton beam from the PIP-II project, which will be capable of providing MW beams to Fermilab experiments later in the next decade.
AB - The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is being designed to study the coherent neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process has an extremely low probability in the Standard Model and its observation would provide unambiguous evidence for BSM physics. The Mu2e design aims to reach a single-event-sensitivity of about 2.5 x 10-17 and will probe effective new physics mass scales in the 103-104 TeV range, well beyond the reach of the LHC. This work examines the maximum beam power that can be tolerated for beam energies in the 0.5-8 GeV range exploring variations in the geometry in the region of the production target using the MARS15 code. This has implications for how the sensitivity might be further improved with a second generation experiment using an upgraded proton beam from the PIP-II project, which will be capable of providing MW beams to Fermilab experiments later in the next decade.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85025820772
SN - 1824-8039
VL - Part F128556
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
T2 - 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2016
Y2 - 3 August 2016 through 10 August 2016
ER -