TWIST Useful Journals, Theses and Papers

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"Less Public" TWIST Papers etc.

• October 2006 NSERC Research Proposal.

• October 2004 NSERC Research Proposal. (A few comments and expansions are in the associated TWIST forum thread.)

• January 2004 NSERC Review Report from the Review Committee. (See also the TWIST Meetings forum.)

• October 2002 NSERC Funding Proposal (directory)

• October 2000 NSERC Funding Proposal
  • Comments of the Referees

Recent papers

• Supersymmetric contributions to weak decay correlation coefficients, PRD 75, 075017, (2007).
• Neutrino mass implications for muon decay parameters, PRD 75, 033005, (2007).
• Neutrino mass constraints on electroweak parameters (thesis with Dirac and Majorana case) Caltech library.
• W. Fetscher and H.-J. Gerber, "Muon Decay Parameters", in "Review of Particle Physics", K. Hagiwara et al., Phys. Rev. D 66, 010001 (2002) 010001-352.
• Muon Decay Spectrum: Leading Log Approx (Andrej, Andrzej, and Andrei)
• First order radiative corrections...
• Muon decay and Physics beyond the Standard Model
• Physics with Low Energy Muons at a Neutrino Factory
• L.M. Sehgal, "Right-handed electrons in radiative muon decay.", Physics Letters B, 04-Sep-2003
  (see this forum post for more article info.)

Seminal papers

• W. Fetscher and H.-J. Gerber, "Precision Measurements in Muon and Tau Decays", in "Precision Tests of the Standard Electroweak Model", ed. Paul Langacker (Advanced Series in Directions in High Energy Physics 14), World Scientific, Singapore (1995) 657-705.
• W. Fetscher, H.-J. Gerber, and K.F. Johnson, "Muon Decay: Complete Determination of the Interaction and Comparison with the Standard Model", Phys. Lett. B 173 (1986) 102-106.
• F. Scheck, "Muon Physics", Phys. Rep. 44 (1978) 187-248.
• Claude Bouchiat and Louis Michel, "Theory of μ-Meson Decay with the Hypothesis of Nonconservation of Parity", Phys. Rev. 106 (1957) 170-172.

PmuXi papers from Russian journals

• Soviet Physics JETP, 34(7), 176 (1958), Alikhanian et al. Bubble chamber experiment where pions were stopped in propane, and decayed pi+ -> mu+ -> e+. They find 0.99 +- 0.18. Note their lambda = our PmuXi. BONUS: the very next article in the journal is a low statistics mu- measurement in an emulsion.
• Soviet Physics JETP, 34(7), 573 (1958), Barmin et al. Bubble chamber experiment with propane again. They find xi > 0.77 +- 0.10.
• Soviet Physics JETP, 36(9), 940 (1959), Ali-Zade et al. Muons were stopped in nuclear emulsion in a constant 2.7 T field. They found pmuxi = 0.97 +- 0.06.
• Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics, 6 (1968) 230, Akhmanov et al. Muons were stopped in nuclear emulsion in a pulsed 14 T (!) field. They also ran at 2.7 T to show consistency with the Ali-Zade result, which demonstrated that a pulsed field didn't introduce an additional depolarising effect. They found pmuxi = 0.975 +- 0.015, which is 1.7 sigma away from pmuxi=1. Prior to Beltrami, this was the most precise pmuxi measurement.

Other papers

• Systematic Errors: facts and fictions, Roger Barlow, hep-ex/0207026. (Lots more stats articles in the Proceedings of the 2002 Durham Conference.)
• Computer Physics Communications directory
• Simple Explanation of the Canonical Momentum Effect in Solenoids, R. Baartman
• Pierre Depommier's notes on spin-flip between two different populations of polarized muons.
• Muon Spin Rotation/Relaxation/Resonance, a 1993 review article by Jess Brewer describing muSR, its history, the physics, and its applications.
• Leptons, Hadrons and Nuclei, Florian Scheck. Textbook with excellent section on muon decay.

Theses relevant to TWIST

• John Peoples' thesis on michel parameter rho from 1966.
  • Contents
  • Chapters 1 - 3
  • Chapters 4 - 6
  • Chapters 7 - 8
  • Appendices
  • Figures
• Roy Bossingham's thesis on michel parameter eta from 1989.
  • Contents
  • Chapters 1 - 2
  • Chapters 3 - 4
  • Chapters 5 - 6
  • Appendices and Figures
• Jodido's thesis on (1 - PmuXiDelta/Rho)
  • Complete thesis
• Stoker's thesis
  • First half
  • Second half
• Balke's thesis
  • First half
  • Second half

Related results

• OPAL Michel result from Nucl. Phys. B; (unpublished CERN report)
• L3 Michel result from Phys. Lett B; (unpublished CERN report)
• ARGUS Michel result
• ARGUS published result
• CLEO Michel Result
• PSI result on transverse muon polarization components

Proposal and Non-Result of Past Attempt

• 1978 LAMPF Proposal to Measure Muon Decay
• NIM Article From LAMPF Experiment Proposed Above