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Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Mar 18;94(10):101805. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101805. Epub 2005 Mar 18.

Measurement of the Michel parameter rho in muon decay.

Physical review letters

J R Musser, R Bayes, Yu I Davydov, P Depommier, J Doornbos, W Faszer, C A Gagliardi, A Gaponenko, D R Gill, P Green, P Gumplinger, M D Hasinoff, R S Henderson, J Hu, B Jamieson, P Kitching, D D Koetke, A A Krushinsky, Yu Yu Lachin, J A Macdonald, R P MacDonald, G M Marshall, E L Mathie, L V Miasoedov, R E Mischke, P M Nord, K Olchanski, A Olin, R Openshaw, T A Porcelli, J-M Poutissou, R Poutissou, M A Quraan, N L Rodning, V Selivanov, G Sheffer, B Shin, F Sobratee, T D S Stanislaus, R Tacik, V D Torokhov, R E Tribble, M A Vasiliev, D H Wright,

Affiliations

  1. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.

PMID: 15783475 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101805

Abstract

The TWIST Collaboration has measured the Michel parameter rho in normal muon decay, mu(+)--> e(+)nu(e)nu (mu). In the standard model, rho = 3/4. Deviations from this value imply mixing of left- and right-handed muon and electron couplings. We find rho=0.750 80+/-0.000 32(stat) +/- 0.000 97(syst) +/- 0.000 23, where the last uncertainty represents the dependence of rho on the Michel parameter eta. This result sets new limits on the W(L)-W(R) mixing angle in left-right symmetric models.

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