Searching for charged lepton flavour violation with the Mu3e experiment - Pixel Tracking Detector

• Applicant: Professor Dr. André Schöning
• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 443478861

The goal of the Mu3e experiment is to search for the rare charged lepton flavour violating decay muon --> eee in its first phase aiming for a single event sensitivity (SES) of 2-3 \times 10^{-15}, corresponding to a factor 200 improvement compared to the existing bound. In a second phase -- after the installation of the new High Intensity Muon Beamline (HIMB) and upgrading the experiment -- an ultimate sensitivity of O(10^-16) shall be achieved. This project includes the commissioning and operation of the detector in phase I and the planned R&D activities for phase II, which aim to make the detector fit for a muon stopping rates in excess of 10^9 muons/s.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 5199: Searching for charged lepton flavour violation with the Mu3e experiment
• Co-Investigator: Dr. Heiko Augustin