1. Technical design of the phase I Mu3e experiment
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Arndt, K., Augustin, H., Baesso, P., Berger, N., Berg, F., Betancourt, C., Bortoletto, D., Bravar, A., Briggl, K., Bruch, D. vom, Buonaura, A., Cadoux, F., Barajas, C. Chavez, Chen, H., Clark, K., Cooke, P., Corrodi, S., Damyanova, A., Demets, Y., Dittmeier, S., Eckert, P., Ehrler, F., Fahrni, D., Gagneur, S., Gerritzen, L., Goldstein, J., Gottschalk, D., Grab, C., Gredig, R., Groves, A., Hammerich, J., Hartenstein, U., Hartmann, U., Hayward, H., Herkert, A., Hesketh, G., Hetzel, S., Hildebrandt, M., Hodge, Z., Hofer, A., Huang, Q. H., Hughes, S., Huth, L., Immig, D. M., Jones, T., Jones, M., Kästli, H. -C., Köppel, M., Kettle, P. -R., Kiehn, M., Kilani, S., Klingenmeyer, H., Knecht, A., Knight, A., Kotlinski, B., Kozlinskiy, A., Leys, R., Lockwood, G., Loreti, A., La Marra, D., Müller, M., Meier, B., Aeschbacher, F. Meier, Meneses, A., Metodiev, K., Mtchedlishvili, A., Muley, S., Munwes, Y., Noehte, L. O. S., Owen, P., Papa, A., Paraskevas, I., Períc, I., Perrevoort, A. -K., Plackett, R., Pohl, M., Ritt, S., Robmann, P., Rompotis, N., Rudzki, T., Rutar, G., Schöning, A., Schimassek, R., Schultz-Coulon, H. -C., Serra, N., Shen, W., Shipsey, I., Shrestha, S., Steinkamp, O., Stoykov, A., Straumann, U., Streuli, S., Stumpf, K., Tata, N., Velthuis, J., Vigani, L., Vilella-Figueras, E., Vossebeld, J., Wallny, R., Wasili, A., Wauters, F., Weber, A., Wiedner, D., Windelband, B., and Zhong, T.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The Mu3e experiment aims to find or exclude the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu \rightarrow eee$ at branching fractions above $10^{-16}$. A first phase of the experiment using an existing beamline at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is designed to reach a single event sensitivity of $2\cdot 10^{-15}$. We present an overview of all aspects of the technical design and expected performance of the phase~I Mu3e detector. The high rate of up to $10^{8}$ muon decays per second and the low momenta of the decay electrons and positrons pose a unique set of challenges, which we tackle using an ultra thin tracking detector based on high-voltage monolithic active pixel sensors combined with scintillating fibres and tiles for precise timing measurements., Comment: 117 pages. Minor corrections to the author list. Replaced with published version. Editor: Frank Meier Aeschbacher
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- 2020
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