New limit on the lepton-flavor-violating decay μ+→e +γ

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Adam, J ^a,b   Bai, X ^c   Baldini, A M ^d   Baracchini, E ^f   Bemporad, C ^d,e   Boca, G ^g,h   Cattaneo, P W ^g   Cavoto, G ⁱ   Cei, F ^d,e   Cerri, C ^d   De Bari, A ^g,h   De Gerone, M ^j,k   Doke, T ^l   Dussoni, S ^j,k   Egger, J ^a   Fratini, K ^j,k   Fujii, Y ^c   Galli, L ^d,e   Gallucci, G ^d,e   Gatti, F ^j,k   Golden, B ^f   Grassi, M ^d   Grigoriev, D N ^m   Haruyama, T ⁿ   Hildebrandt, M ^a   Hisamatsu, Y ^c   Ignatov, F ^m   Iwamoto, T ^c   Kettle, P R ^a   Khazin, B I ^m   Kiselev, O ^a   Korenchenko, A ^o   Kravchuk, N ^o   Maki, A ⁿ   Mihara, S ⁿ   Molzon, W ^f   Mori, T ^c   Mzavia, D ^o   Natori, H ^a,c   Nicolo D ^d,e   Nishiguchi, H ⁿ   Nishimura, Y ^c   Ootani, W ^c   Panareo, M ^p,q   Papa, A ^a   Pazzi, R ^d,e   Piredda, G ⁱ   Popov, A ^m   Renga, F ^a,i   Ritt, S ^a   Rossella, M ^g   Sawada, R ^c   Sergiampietri, F ^d   Signorelli, G ^d   Suzuki, S ^l   Tenchini, F ^d,e   Topchyan, C ^f   Uchiyama, Y ^a,c   Valle, R ^j,k,r   Voena, C ⁱ   Xiao, F ^f   Yamada, S ⁿ   Yamamoto, A ⁿ   Yamashita, S ^c   Yudin, Yu V ^m   Zanello, D ⁱ   more..

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^h Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare   (Italy)

ⁱ INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^j INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^l WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^o JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^p INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^r NONE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING RATIO; DATA SAMPLE; LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MUON DECAYS; NEW RESULTS; UPPER LIMITS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

EID: 80054771658     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.171801     Document Type: Article

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