MuonE
MUonE is a proposed experiment at CERN that aims to make a direct measurement of the leading-order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment via the precise measurement of the differential cross-section of the scattering of 160 GeV muons on atomic electrons through the elastic process µe → µe.
With entirely independent systematic uncertainties from existing theoretical predictions, this measurement will shed light on the well-known muon magnetic moment anomaly (as measured by the g-2 experiment) and will confirm or deny the existence of a discrepancy between the experimental and theoretical values of aµ. To achieve competitive precision of 0.3% on aµhad there are challenging requirements on both the hardware and analysis sides. MUonE will consist of a series of Silicon detector tracking “stations” which must be aligned to better than 10 µm and achieve uniform efficiency over the full kinematic region of interest. A first run with three stations will take place at CERN in Summer 2025, with the full experiment of 40 stations proposed to start taking data in 2029 2030 after the CERN Long Shutdown.
The Liverpool group is one of the largest groups on the MUonE experiment and is making important contributions to the hardware, analysis and theoretical efforts of the experiment, providing the Beam Momentum Spectrometer (BMS) detector to control systematic uncertainties associated with knowledge of the incoming muon beam.
Team Leader
- Prof Graziano Venanzoni
Academic, Research and Technical Staff
- Dr Elia Bottalico
- Prof Themis Bowcock
- John Carroll
- Dr Saskia Charity
- Ashely Greenall
- Dr Fedor Ignatov
- Dr Tim Jones
- Dr Jeremy Paltrinieri (Theoretical Physics)
- Dr Riccardo Pilato
- David Sim
- Tony Smith
- Dr Alan Taylor
- Prof Thomas Teubner (Theoretical Physics)
- Dr William Torres-Bobadilla (Theoretical Physics)
- Dr Yannick Ulrich (Theoretical Physics)
- Mark Whitley
- Dr Ce Zhang
PhD Students
- Giorgia Cacciola
- Tom Dave (Theoretical Physics)
- Clement Devanne
- Katie Ferraby
- Thomas Lenane
- Pau Petit Rosas (Theoretical Physics)
- Niels Vestergaard