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Status of the PIENU experiment

  • T. Numao
  • , A. Aguilar-Arevalo
  • , M. Aoki
  • , M. Blecher
  • , D. I. Britton
  • , D. A. Bryman
  • , D. Vom Bruch
  • , S. Chen
  • , J. Comfort
  • , S. Cuen-Rochin
  • , L. Doria
  • , P. Gumplinger
  • , A. Hussein
  • , Y. Igarashi
  • , S. Ito
  • , S. Kettell
  • , L. Kurchaninov
  • , L. Littenberg
  • , C. Malbrunot
  • , R. Mischke
  • D. Protopopescu, A. Sher, T. Sullivan, D. Vavilov

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number012002
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume556
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event11th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, BEACH 2014 - Birmingham, United Kingdom
Duration: Jul 21 2014Jul 26 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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