\BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.1}{Supervisory Committee}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.2}{Abstract}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.3}{Table of Contents}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.5}{List of Tables}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.7}{List of Figures}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.9}{Acknowledgements}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{section*.10}{Epigraph}{} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{chapter.1}{Introduction}{} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.1}{Physics motivation}{chapter.1} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.2}{Theoretical description of muon decay}{chapter.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.1.2.1}{General 4-fermion interaction}{section.1.2} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.1.2.2}{Momentum-angle spectrum parametrization}{section.1.2} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.3}{Theoretical implications}{chapter.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.1.3.1}{Global analysis}{section.1.3} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.1.3.2}{Extended formalism for a non-local tensor interaction}{section.1.3} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.4}{Experimental status of \040and }{chapter.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.1.4.1}{Previous measurements of }{section.1.4} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.1.4.2}{Previous measurements of }{section.1.4} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.5}{Overview of the TWIST experiment}{chapter.1} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{chapter.2}{TWIST experimental setup and data}{} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.2.1}{Experimental setup}{chapter.2} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.2.1.1}{Highly polarized muon beam}{section.2.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.2.1.2}{Spectrometer}{section.2.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.2.1.3}{Superconducting solenoid and the yoke}{section.2.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.2.1.4}{Beam package and scintillators}{section.2.1} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.2.1.5}{Time expansion chamber \(TEC\)}{section.2.1} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.2.2}{Experimental data}{chapter.2} \BOOKMARK [0][-]{chapter.3}{Analysis}{} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.3.1}{Blind analysis}{chapter.3} \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.3.2}{Event reconstruction}{chapter.3} \BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.3.2.1}{Data run 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