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The Fermi Coupling constant G F plays key role in all precision tests of electroweak standard model together with  and mass of Z-boson best measured quantity in electro- weak interaction  ->  input to all higher-order calculations (historically strongest constraint on top mass before it was directly measured now e.g. limit for Higgs mass)     < - > G F  is sensitive to physics at very high energy scales experimentally, G F  is extracted from muon lifetime   = 1/ purely leptonic process  - >  very clean experimentally and theoretically

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The Fermi Coupling constant GF

plays key role in all precision tests of electroweak standard modeltogether with  and mass of Z­boson best measured quantity in electro­weak interaction  ­>  input to all higher­order calculations(historically strongest constraint on top mass before it was directly measurednow e.g. limit for Higgs mass)     < ­ > GF is sensitive to physics at very high energy scales

experimentally, GF is extracted from muon lifetime   = 1/

purely leptonic process  ­ >  very clean experimentally and theoretically

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and Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 488

1­loop QED contributions calculated already 40 years ago by Kinoshita, Sirlin, Berman.

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presently data from 2 experiments with results published in 1984

generally use decay of secondary pion beam into muons and observe their decay into electrons + ...

1. 

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­ 140 MeV pion beam from Saclay Linac, pulsed beam­ stop pion beam in S­target during 3 microsecond beam burst ­ target designed such that most decay muons stop in target before decay­ measure time distribution of decay positrons detected in 6 telescopes of plastic scintillator 

covering 75% of total solid angle in 65 microsecond gate after start signal

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difficulty: polarization of muons at decay; stopped pions produce unpolarized muons, but beam contains fraction (5%) of polarized muons from decay in flight. Sulfur depolarizes muons effectively, shape optimized for stopping high energy beam muons

why is polarization disturbing? spin precession in magnetic field, rate of decay electrons depends on angle and is time modulated  (used in g­2 experiment to measure muon magnetic moment)experiment has to minimize residual magnetic field (mainly terrestrial),  Helmholtz coilscareful measurement of polarization effects

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time distribution measured in a telescopetotal time about 5 days, several runs per day, typically a few million decays per run measured

distribution of resulting muon lifetimes from all runs and telescopes

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typically run at very low beam rate such that only 0.1 electrons per gateotherwise need to correct for fact that finite time resolution of electronics may not detect 2 decays bothcontrol: high and low rate measurements and correction toward zero rate

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TRIUMF/Canada 500 MeV proton cyclotrongenerate secondary pions of 150­170 MeVstop in water Cherenkov countermeasure time distribution of positronsfrom decay pi+ ­> mu+ ­> e+

2. 

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still some muon and electron contamination from beambut muons make signals of low pulse heightbeam electrons of high pulseheigtselect a window

used part of spectrum

e from beam

from beam

again difficulty: e+ from beam muons polarized, spin precession even in very low B­field

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New efforts to improve muon lifetime (since it completely dominates errorin GF)2 efforts at PSI (Switzerland)

both proposed in 1999, aim to take 1012 decays to measure  over 9 lifetimes in 1­2 months final data taking

both aim for 1 ppm accuracy in muon lifetime (vs. 18 presently)data taking going on, no final results released yeterror presently down to half of the previous, but still way to go

Fibre Active Scintillator Target

pulsed muon beam and fast segmented timing detector180 triangular scint. tiles on sphere

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MuLan

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