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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 103, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.033002
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- Intensity Frontier Fellowship program
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics [DE-SC0019095, DE-AC02-07CH11359]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019095] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The Mu2e and COMET collaborations are searching for nucleus-catalyzed muon conversion to positrons as a signal of lepton number violation, with radiative muon capture as a key background. This work describes how the near end point internal positron spectrum can be related to the real photon spectrum from the same nucleus.
The Mu2e and COMET collaborations will search for nucleus-catalyzed muon conversion to positrons (mu(-) -> e(+)) as a signal of lepton number violation. A key background for this search is radiative muon capture where either (1) a real photon converts to an e(+)e(-) pair externally in surrounding material, or (2) a virtual photon mediates the production of an e(+)e(-) pair internally. If the e(+) has an energy approaching the signal region then it can serve as an irreducible background. In this work we describe how the near end point internal positron spectrum can be related to the real photon spectrum from the same nucleus, which encodes all nontrivial nuclear physics.
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