# NuFact 2022: The 23rd International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators

July 30, 2022 to August 6, 2022
Cliff Lodge
US/Mountain timezone

## Mu2e: The Search for Muon to Electron Conversion at Fermilab

Aug 2, 2022, 4:00 PM
30m
Magpie A

### Magpie A

Talk WG4: Muon Physics

### Speaker

Craig Group (Virginia)

### Description

The Mu2e experiment, currently under construction at Fermilab, will search for the neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. A clear signature of this charged lepton flavor violating two-body process is given by the monoenergetic conversion electron of 104.97 MeV produced in the final state. The experimental apparatus consists of an intense pulsed proton beam interacting on a tungsten target; a set of superconducting magnets that selects negative muons; a segmented aluminum target that stops the muons; and a set of detectors used to both identify conversion electrons and reject beam and cosmic backgrounds. The experiment will need 3-5 years of data-taking to achieve a factor of $10^4$ improvement on the current best limit on the conversion rate. After an introduction to the physics of Mu2e, we will report on the status of the different components of the experimental apparatus. We conclude with our current estimate of the experiment’s sensitivity and discovery potential.

Attendance type In-person presentation

### Primary author

Craig Group (Virginia)

### Presentation materials

 NuFact2022_Mu2e.pptx NuFact2022_Mu2e_reduced.pdf