Experiments

Experiments

Project Description Duration Contact / E-mail
AlCap Study of Muon Capture for Muon to Electron Conversion Experiments Details
Background and normalization studies for the Mu2e and COMET experiments. Muonic Atoms		 2013-2015 Peter Kammel,
pkammel@uw.edu
 
Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) One of the two multi purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Details High Energy		 1992- Lea Caminada,
lea.caminada@psi.ch
 
FAST: Measurement of the muon lifetime Precision measurement of GF via muon decay.

Details Muon Decay		 1998-2005 Konrad Deiters,
konrad.deiters@psi.ch
 
HyperMu Hyperfine splitting of muonic hydrogen
Measurement of the hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen and laser technologies.
Details Muonic Atoms		 2016- Aldo Antognini,
aldo.antognini@psi.ch
 
Lambshift in Muonic Hydrogen Will allow to eliminate the contribution of the proton charge radius in precision QED tests.

Details Muonic Atoms		 1998-2015 Aldo Antognini,
aldo.antognini@psi.ch
 
MEG: The decay of a muon into a positron and a gamma ray A look beyond the standard model at 10-14 level.

Details Muon Decay		 1999- Stefan Ritt,
stefan.ritt@psi.ch
 
Mu3e: The decay of a muon into three electrons Search for new physics at the 10-16 level.

Details Muon Decay		 2012- Stefan Ritt,
stefan.ritt@psi.ch
 
muEDM: The Electric Dipole Moment of the muon Search for the muon EDM down to 3 x 10-21 e cm 2023- Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg, philipp.schmidt-wellenburg@psi.ch
Mu-Mass: MUoniuM lASer Spectroscopy Measuring the 1S-2S transition in Muonium
Details Muonic Atoms		 2018-

Paolo Crivelli, crivelli@phys.ethz.ch
MUSE: Muon Proton Scattering Experiment Measurement of the proton radius via muon scattering.

Details Muon Scattering		 2012- Ron Gildman,
rgilman@physics.rutgers.edu
 
MuSun: Muon Capture on the Deuterium Measurement of μd capture rate to 1% precision.

Details Muonic Atoms		 2008- Malte Hildebrandt,
malte.hildebrandt@psi.ch
 
muX: Measurement of the charge radius of radium

Measurements of the charge radii of highly radioactive elements and of an atomic parity violation signal in the 2s1s transition of a muonic atom.

Details  Muonic Atoms

 

 2016 Andreas Knecht,
a.knecht@psi.ch
 
nEDM: Measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment Search for non-standard CP violation.

Details Ultracold Neutrons		 2009-2017 Klaus Kirch,
klaus.kirch@psi.ch
 
n2EDM: New measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment Search for non-standard CP violation.

Details Ultracold Neutrons		 2018-

Bernhard Lauss,
bernhard.lauss@psi.ch
nTRV: Decay of free polarised neutrons Search for time reversal violation.

Details Ultracold Neutrons		 2001- Wulf Fetscher,
wulf.fetscher@psi.ch
 
PIONEER: Precision measurements of the charged-pion branching ratio to electrons vs. muons

Precision measurement of pion decay

Details Pion Decay

 2022- Peter Kammel, pkammel@uw.edu
Dave Hertzog, hertzog@uw.edu
Doug Bryman, bryman@phas,ub,ca
PIonic HElium

Laser spectroscopy of pionic atoms

Details

 2013-

Masaki Hori,
masaki.hori@mpq.mpg.de

Anna Soter,
asoter@phys.ethz.ch