Search for New Physics in Experiments with High-Intensity Muon Beams |
Leader: | V.V. Glagolev |
| Deputy: | Yu.I. Davydov |
| Scientific leader: | J.A. Budagov |
Participating countries and international organizations:
Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, USA, Ukraine, Japan.
Issues addressed and main goals of research:
The muon anomalous magnetic moment aµ can be measured and computed to high precision.
The comparison between experiment and the SM therefore provides a sensitive search for New Physics (NP).
At present, both measurement and theory have sub-part-per-million (ppm) uncertainties, and the "g-2 test"
is being used to constrain SM extensions. The difference between experiment and theory,
 aµ(Expt-SM) = (255 ± 80)
× 10 -11 (3.2  ), is a highly cited result and a possible
harbinger of new TeV-scale physics. Potential explanations of the deviation include: supersymmetry,
lepton substructure, dark matter loop etc., all well motivated by theory and consistent with other experimental
constraints. Fermilab experiment has a plan to reduce the experimental uncertainty by a factor of 4 or more.
A precise g-2 test, no matter where the final value lands, will sharply discriminate among models and will
enter as one of the central observables in a global analysis of any SM extensions.
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab and at MEG II experiment at PSI is a dedicated search for the CLFV processes µ - N e - N,
µ + e + . Once neutrinos masses are included, the process is
allowed but effectively still absent since the rate is proportional to ( m 2ij/M 2W) 2 ,
where m 2ij is the mass difference
squared between i-th and j-th neutrino mass eigenstates, and MW is the mass of the W-boson.
The predicted rates for the µ -N e -N and µ + e +
CLFV processes are less than 10 -50 each. This makes this process a very
theoretically clean place to search for NP effects. In many NP models that include a description of neutrino
mass, the rates for these processes are enormously enhanced so that they occur at a level to which Mu2e
experiment will have sensitivity.
Participation in the creation of and testing theoretical views in the topics.
Study of CP-violation in the lepton sector with the help of neutrino.
Study of hyperfine interactions of an acceptor impurity in semiconductors with the aid of negative muons.
Investigation of the behavior of positive muons in systems with magnetic nanoparticles.
Expected major results in the current year:
- Simulation for e.m. calorimeter calibration of the Mu2e experiment.
- Tests of the CsI and BaF2 e.m. calorimeter elements on the gamma sources and
electron beam.
- Participation in the construction and tests of modules of scintillator counters for the veto system. Quality control.
- Support of the final version of visualization and control software.
- Participation in data taking runs and data analysis.
- Participation in the radiation hardness tests of the detector elements.
- Analysis of the experimental data on the radiative pion decay collected by the PEN experiment.
- Participation in development of the positron tracker for the MEG-II experiment, DAQ, data ana-lysis.
- Participation in the data taking and analysis of experimental data using CERN hadron beams.
- Software development for data processing and analysis.
- Study of the behavior of magnetic nanoparticles with high magnetic anisotropy by the muon spin ro-tation technique.
- Methodical work with TRITON components.
| List of projects: |
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Project |
Leader |
Priority
(period of realisation) |
| 1. | Search for new physics in experiments
with high-intensity muon beams |
V.V. Glagolev |
1 (2015-2020) |
| List of Activities | | | Activity or Experiment | Leaders | Status |
| | Laboratory or other
Division of JINR
Responsible person | Main researchers
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| 1. | Experiment Mu2e | V.V. Glagolev |
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DLNP
| A.M. Artikov, N.V. Atanov, O.S. Atanova, N.S. Azaryan, V.Yu. Baranov, V.Yu. Batusov, J.A. Budagov, D.Sh. Chokheli, Yu.I. Davydov, D.L. Demin,
A.V. Guskov, Yu.N. Kharzheev, V.I. Kolomoets, S.M. Kolomoets, M.V. Lyablin, Yu.A. Koultchitski, V.M. Romanov, A.V. Sazonova,
A.N. Shalugin, A.V. Simonenko, S.N. Studenov, I.A. Suslov, I.V. Titkova, V.V. Tereschenko, S.V. Tereschenko, Z.U. Usubov
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BLTP
| D.I. Kazakov, G.A. Kozlov, O.V. Tarasov
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LIT
| V.V. Korenkov, V.V. Uzhinsky
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VBLHEP
| A.S. Galoyan
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| 2. | Experiment Muon g-2 | N.V. Khomutov |
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DLNP
| V.A. Baranov, V.N. Duginov, N.P. Kravchuk, N.A. Kuchinsky, A.I. Rudenko, V.P. Volnykh
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VBLHE
| S.A. Movchan
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LRB
| V.A. Krylov
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| 3. | Experiment MEG II | N.V. Khomutov |
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DLNP
| V.A. Baranov, V.V. Glagolev, Yu.I. Davydov, N.A. Kuchinsky, N.P. Kravchuk, A.V. Krasnoperov, V.L. Malyshev,
A.M. Rozhdestvensky, A.V. Simonenko, I.V. Titkova
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VBLHEP
| A.O. Kolesnikov
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LRB
| V.A. Krylov
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| 4. | Experiment PEN | N.A. Kuchinsky |
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DLNP
| V.A. Baranov, N.V. Khomutov, A.S. Khrykin, S.M. Korenchenko, E.S. Kuzmin, A.M. Rozhdestvensky,
E.P. Velicheva, V.P. Volnykh
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BLTP
| Yu.M. Bystritsky
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| 5. | CERN Neutrino platform | B.A. Popov |
Data taking
Data processing |
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DLNP
| N. Atanov, A. V. Krasnoperov, V.V. Lyubushkin, S.V. Tereschenko, V.V. Tereschenko
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| 6. | Experiment MUSPIN | V.N. Duginov |
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DLNP
| E.I. Bunyatova, K.I. Gritsay, A.I. Rudenko, G.D. Soboleva
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FLNP
| M. Balasoiu + 2 pers.
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| 7. | Experiment TRITON | D.L. Demin |
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DLNP
| N.A. Baranova, A.I. Boguslavsky, K.I. Gritsay, V.N. Duginov, V.I. Kolomoets, A.D. Konin, A.P. Kustov, A.I. Rudenko, Yu.A. Polyakov,
S.A. Gustov, N.A. Shakun, E.V. Kolesov, V.I. Smirnov, E.D. Gorodnichev, Z.U. Usubov
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FLNR
| S.A. Yukhimchuk
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LRB
| V.B. Buchnev, V.Yu. Schegolev
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| Collaboration |
Country or International
Organization | City | Institute or Laboratory |
| Belarus
| Minsk
| INP BSU
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| Bulgaria
| Sofia
| SU
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| Georgia
| Tbilisi
| HEPI-TSU
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| Italy
| Pisa
| UniPi
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| Frascati
| INFN LNF
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| Russia
| Moscow, Troitsk
| INR RAS
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| Gatchina
| NRC KI PNPI
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| Romania
| Bucharest
| IFIN-HH
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| Slovakia
| Bratislava
| IP SAS
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| CU
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| Switzerland
| Villigen
| PSI
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| Ukraine
| Kharkov
| ISMA NASU
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| USA
| Batavia, IL
| Fermilab
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| Charlottesville, VA
| UVa
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| Lexington, KY
| UK
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