High Sensitivity Tests Of The Standard Model For Electroweak Interactions Scientific Progress Report 16 January 1992 15 January 1993 PDF Download

The work done on this project was focused on two LAMPF experiments. The MEGA experiment, a high-sensitivity search for the lepton-family-number-violating decay [mu] [yields] e [gamma] to a sensitivity which, measured in terms of the branching ratio, BR = [[mu] [yields] e [gamma]]/[[mu] [yields] ev[sub [mu]] v[sub e]] [approximately] 10[sup [minus]13], is over two orders of magnitude better than previously reported values. The second is a precision measurement of the Michel [rho] parameter from the positron energy spectrum of [mu] [yields] ev[sub [mu]] v[sub e] to test the V-A theory of weak interactions. The uncertainty in the measurement of the Michel [rho] parameter is expected to be a factor of three lower than the present reported value.