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New Limit for the Family-Number Non-conserving Decay mu+ to e+_gamma

arXiv:hep-ex/9905013 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1521

Abstract

An experiment has been performed to search for the muon- and electron-number non-conserving decay mu+ to e+_gamma. The upper limit for the branching ratio to be GAMMA(mu+ to e+_gamma)/GAMMA(mu+ to e+_nu_nubar) < 1.2e-11 with 90% confidence.

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett