A sensitive search for a muon electric dipole moment
Yannis Kyriakos Semertzidis · AIP conference proceedings · 2001
We are proposing a new method to carry out a dedicated search for a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the muon with a sensitivity at a level of 10−24 e⋅cm. The experiment will be sensitive to non-standard physics like SUSY. [1] The experimental design exploits the strong motional electric field sensed by relativistic particles in a magnetic storage ring. [2,3] As a key feature, a novel technique has been invented in which the g-2 precession is compensated with a radial electric field. The EDM signature will be an out of plane muon spin precession as a function of time. The rate of this precession will be proportional to the EDM amplitude of the muon.