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NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
Volume 721, Issue -, Pages 457C-460CPublisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9474(03)01098-4
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The mu(PT) experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut has determined the three polarization components of positrons from polarized muon decay simultaneously with the same apparatus by making use of three different effects (spatial and temporal dependence of annihilation-in-flight with polarized electrons and muon decay asymmetry). The use of a stroboscopic method greatly reduces systematic errors. The energy dependence of the transverse polarization component P-T1, which lies in the plane spanned by muon-spin and positron momentum, yields the low energy parameter eta and thus an improved model-independent value of the Fermi coupling constant. A non-zero value of the transverse component P-T2, which is perpendicular to the above mentioned plane, would be the first observation of time reversal violation in a purely leptonic decay. The preliminary results are P-T1 = (5 +/- 16) X 10(-3), p(T2) = (1 +/- 16) x 10(-3) and P-L = 1.09 +/- 0.15.
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