2017/10/06 by Vitaly Pronskikh, D. Glenzinskí, Pronskikh, V. +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.03591
openalex publication_date 2017/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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 × 1017 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.