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SUMMARY:AlCap: Quantifying Backgrounds for the Mu2e Experiment
DESCRIPTION:Featuring John Quirk\n\nPart of the Preliminary Oral Exam.\n\nE
	xamining Committee:\n\nAbstract: James Miller\, Shyamsunder Erramilli\, Ed 
	Kearns\, Martin Schmaltz\n\nUntil the discovery of neutrino oscillation\, L
	epton Flavor Violation (LFV) was thought to be an unbroken symmetry of the 
	physical world. Augmenting the Standard Model (SM) with a neutrino mass ter
	m has been the best explanation for this phenomenon. This extension additio
	nally leads to unobservably low rates of charged LFV\, whereas many New Phy
	sics (NP) models predict\na greatly enhanced branching ratio for these proc
	esses. Therefore any observation would clearly indicate NP. The Muon to Ele
	ctron Conversion Experiment (Mu2e) at Fermilab aims to either observe the c
	onversion in the presence of an aluminum nucleus\, or set an upper limit on
	 the mu+Al->e+Al branching ratio 10\,000 times better than any previous mea
	surement.\nAs a precision experiment\, control of backgrounds is of paramou
	nt importance. This talk will focus on the Aluminum Capture Experiment (AlC
	ap)\, which aims to quantify certain backgrounds to an unprecedented level 
	in order to aid in making design decisions for Mu2e.\n\n![John Quirk](/reso
	urces/event-image/1284/59f262f_small)
LOCATION:PRB 365\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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