Fundamental measurements with muons - View from PSI

Abstract

Muons can serve as probes to precisely determine fundamental parameters of the Standard Model or search for `new physics'. The high intensity muon beams at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) allow for precision measurements and searches for rare or forbidden processes. Both types of experiments challenge the Standard Model in a way complementary to high energy physics. We give a short overview of recent results and ongoing experiments at PSI, and of ideas for the future.

7 pages, 4 Figures Proceedings of the PANIC'08 Conference, Eilat, Israel, (invited talk)

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• Axial structure of the nucleon
• Measurement of the ${\nu }_e$ and Total ${}^8$B Solar Neutrino Fluxes with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Phase I Data Set
• Mass effects in muon and semileptonic b -> c decays
• Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton's Pseudoscalar Coupling $g_P$
• Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant
• The ${\mu }^{-}d$ capture rate in effective field theory
• Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Muon Capture
• Constraining the Leading Weak Axial Two-body Current by SNO and Super-K
• Measurement of the Fermi Constant by FAST
• A Circulating Hydrogen Ultra-High Purification System for the MuCap Experiment
• Fixing Two-Nucleon Weak-Axial Coupling L_{1,A} From mu-d Capture
• Ortho-para transition rate in $\mu$-molecular hydrogen and the proton's induced pseudoscalar coupling $g_p$
• Constraints on Axial Two-Body Currents from Solar Neutrino Data
• Limit on the electric charge-nonconserving ${\mu }^{+}\to invisible$ decay
• Compact storage ring to search for the muon electric dipole moment

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• Two-loop corrections to the Lamb shift