MUSE · Muon campus in US and Europe contribution

Muon campus in US and Europe contribution

The Muon Campus at the Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab), USA, is a unique world-leading facility providing the most intense pulsed-muon beams and is hosting two world class experiments dedicated to the search for new fundamental interactions beyond those predicted by the Standard Model. Muon (g-2) aims to determine with a ten-fold improvement the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon while Mu2e will improve by four orders of magnitude the sensitivity on the search for the as-yet unobserved Charged Lepton Flavour Violating (CLFV) process of a neutrinoless conversion of a muon to an electron. European research institutions have a leading role in both detector development and construction and in the calibration and analysis of the data. The results from the Fermilab experiments complement those from similar CLFV searches being carried out in Europe and produce very fruitful collaborations in this field. Through an involvement in both the US and the European programs, European institutes are at the forefront of the search for evidence of new physics in the muon sector. The goal of the MUSE project is to establish new collaborations among European groups participating in the Muon Campus activities, increasing their contribution and visibility at Fermilab and strengthening the already existing partnership with the laboratory. International and intersectoral collaboration is promoted by means of secondments of European personnel from research institutes and small/medium-sized enterprises (SME) and exploiting as much as possible transfer of knowledge among different experiments, institutions and expertise. The ambition of the project is the design, construction, commissioning and calibration of state-of-the-art detectors for the Muon (g-2) and Mu2e experiments and the exploitation of the existing European infrastructure to create a network of radiation hardness tests and characterization of detector components. During the four years of the project, MUSE has coordinated the activities of about 80 researchers from four European research institute and three SME. State-of-the-art detectors have been designed, built and commissioned, demonstrating that they fulfil the requirements of the experiments. Therefore, the impact of the project matches its initial planning. The activities carried on by the MUSE partners has provided fundamental contributions to the exploitation of the Muon Campus physics goal. The existing EU infrastructures for testing radiation hardness and characterizing the detector components has made the European contribution significantly stronger.

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