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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Experimental constraints on left-right symmetric models from muon decay
R Bayes1, J F Bueno, A Hillairet
1TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Abstract:
The TWIST Collaboration has completed a new measurement of the energy-angle spectrum of positrons from the decay of highly polarized muons. A simultaneous measurement of the muon decay parameters ρ, δ, and P(μ)(π)ξ tests the standard model in a purely leptonic process and provides improved limits for relevant extensions to the standard model. Specifically, for the generalized left-right symmetric model |(g(R)/g(L))ζ|<0.020 and (g(L)/g(R))m(2)>578 GeV/c(2), both 90% C.L.
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