European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (Mar 2024)

A search for $$\upmu ^+ \rightarrow \textrm{e}^+ \upgamma $$ μ + → e + γ with the first dataset of the MEG II experiment

  • K. Afanaciev,
  • A. M. Baldini,
  • S. Ban,
  • V. Baranov,
  • H. Benmansour,
  • M. Biasotti,
  • G. Boca,
  • P. W. Cattaneo,
  • G. Cavoto,
  • F. Cei,
  • M. Chiappini,
  • G. Chiarello,
  • A. Corvaglia,
  • F. Cuna,
  • G. Dal Maso,
  • A. De Bari,
  • M. De Gerone,
  • L. Ferrari Barusso,
  • M. Francesconi,
  • L. Galli,
  • G. Gallucci,
  • F. Gatti,
  • L. Gerritzen,
  • F. Grancagnolo,
  • E. G. Grandoni,
  • M. Grassi,
  • D. N. Grigoriev,
  • M. Hildebrandt,
  • K. Ieki,
  • F. Ignatov,
  • F. Ikeda,
  • T. Iwamoto,
  • S. Karpov,
  • P.-R. Kettle,
  • N. Khomutov,
  • S. Kobayashi,
  • A. Kolesnikov,
  • N. Kravchuk,
  • V. Krylov,
  • N. Kuchinskiy,
  • W. Kyle,
  • T. Libeiro,
  • V. Malyshev,
  • A. Matsushita,
  • M. Meucci,
  • S. Mihara,
  • W. Molzon,
  • Toshinori Mori,
  • M. Nakao,
  • D. Nicolò,
  • H. Nishiguchi,
  • A. Ochi,
  • S. Ogawa,
  • R. Onda,
  • W. Ootani,
  • A. Oya,
  • D. Palo,
  • M. Panareo,
  • A. Papa,
  • V. Pettinacci,
  • A. Popov,
  • F. Renga,
  • S. Ritt,
  • M. Rossella,
  • A. Rozhdestvensky,
  • P. Schwendimann,
  • K. Shimada,
  • G. Signorelli,
  • M. Takahashi,
  • G. F. Tassielli,
  • K. Toyoda,
  • Y. Uchiyama,
  • M. Usami,
  • A. Venturini,
  • B. Vitali,
  • C. Voena,
  • K. Yamamoto,
  • K. Yanai,
  • T. Yonemoto,
  • K. Yoshida,
  • Yu. V. Yudin,
  • MEG II Collaboration

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12416-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 84, no. 3
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract The MEG II experiment, based at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, reports the result of a search for the decay $$\upmu ^+ \rightarrow {\textrm{e}}^+ \upgamma $$ μ + → e + γ from data taken in the first physics run in 2021. No excess of events over the expected background is observed, yielding an upper limit on the branching ratio of $${\mathcal {B}} (\upmu ^+ \rightarrow {\textrm{e}}^+ \upgamma ) < 7.5 \times 10^{-13}$$ B ( μ + → e + γ ) < 7.5 × 10 - 13 (90% CL). The combination of this result and the limit obtained by MEG gives $${\mathcal {B}} (\upmu ^+ \rightarrow {\textrm{e}}^+ \upgamma ) < 3.1 \times 10^{-13}$$ B ( μ + → e + γ ) < 3.1 × 10 - 13 (90% CL), which is the most stringent limit to date. A ten-fold larger sample of data is being collected during the years 2022–2023, and data-taking will continue in the coming years.